CVE-2024-43875

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: endpoint: Clean up error handling in vpciscanbus Smatch complains about inconsistent NULL checking in vpciscanbus: drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c:1024 vpciscanbus error: we previously assumed 'vpcibus' could b...

CVE-2024-43875

CVE-2024-43875 affects the Linux kernel PCI endpoint code, specifically vpci_scan_bus in drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c. The issue is improper NULL checking and error handling: Smatch reported that vpci_bus could be NULL, leading to an error path that would crash instead of returni...