USN-6918-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker...

CVE-2024-35883 spi: mchp-pci1xxx: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in pci1xxx_spi_probe

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: mchp-pci1xxx: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in pci1xxxspiprobe In function pci1xxxxspiprobe, there is a potential null pointer that may be caused by a failed memory allocation by the function devmkzalloc. Hence, a...

CVE-2024-35883 spi: mchp-pci1xxx: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in pci1xxx_spi_probe

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: mchp-pci1xxx: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in pci1xxxspiprobe In function pci1xxxxspiprobe, there is a potential null pointer that may be caused by a failed memory allocation by the function devmkzalloc. Hence, a...

CVE-2024-35883

CVE-2024-35883 affects the Linux kernel's PCI SPI driver for mchp-pci1xxx. The issue is a potential null pointer dereference in pci1xxx_spi_probe caused by a failed devm_kzalloc, leading to dereferencing a null when spi_int/iter is accessed. Mitigation in the cited fix is to check spi_bus->spi...