Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-50160 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix possible NULL dereference If snd_hda_gen_add_kctl fails to allocate memory and returns NULL, then NULL pointer dereference will occur in the next line. Since dolphin_fixups function is a hda_fixup function which is not supposed to return any errors, add simple check before dereference, ignore the fail. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e19aca8db696b6ba4dd8c73657405e15c695f14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21dc97d5086fdabbe278786bb0a03cbf2e26c793
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8971fd61210d75fd2af225621cd2fcc87eb1847c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5dd71a8b849626f42d08a5e73d382f2016fc7bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9bd4a82b4ed32c6d1c90500a52063e6e341517f