CVE-2024-35904

2024-05-1909:15:11

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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cve-2024-35904

selinux

mount failure

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

JSON

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

selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure

In case kern_mount() fails and returns an error pointer return in the
error branch instead of continuing and dereferencing the error pointer.

While on it drop the never read static variable selinuxfs_mount.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.17–6.6.26

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.8.5

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.9.0≥

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "security/selinux/selinuxfs.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0619f0f5e36f",
        "lessThan": "477ed6789eb9",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "0619f0f5e36f",
        "lessThan": "68784a5d01b8",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "0619f0f5e36f",
        "lessThan": "37801a36b4d6",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "security/selinux/selinuxfs.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "4.17",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "4.17",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.26",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8.5",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]