CVE-2024-36890 mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

CVE-2024-36890 mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

SUSE CVE-2024-35904

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure In case kernmount 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...

SUSE CVE-2023-23001

In the Linux kernel before 5.16.3, drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-mediatek.c misinterprets the regulatorget return value expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-23000

In the Linux kernel before 5.17, drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c mishandles the tegraxusbfindportnode return value. Callers expect NULL in the error case, but an error pointer is used...

Kernel: xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL

The xfrmstatenetlink function in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.7 does not properly handle error conditions in dumponestate function calls, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash by leveraging the...