CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-26604

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 26, 2024 | Modified: Apr 17, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Revert kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL

This reverts commit 1b28cb81dab7c1eedc6034206f4e8d644046ad31.

It is reported to cause problems, so revert it for now until the root cause can be found.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 6.6.0 (including) 6.6.18 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 6.7.0 (including) 6.7.6 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References