Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ALSA: ac97 – Fixed a possible NULL dereference in sndac97mixer. Smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97codec.c:2354; sndac97mixer error: We previously assumed that ‘rac97’ could be null see line 2072. Removed redundant assignments;...

CVE-2023-53648

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in sndac97mixer smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97codec.c:2354 sndac97mixer error: we previously assumed 'rac97' could be null see line 2072 remove redundant assignment, return error if...

CVE-2023-53648

The CVE CVE-2023-53648 fixes a NULL pointer dereference in ALSA: ac97 in snd_ac97_mixer() within the Linux kernel. The issue occurred because rac97 could be NULL; the patch removes a redundant assignment and returns an error if rac97 is NULL. The documented impact is a local denial of service due...