Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: nouveau/dmem: handling of kcalloc allocation failures The kcalloc function in nouveaudmemevictchunk will return null if the physical memory runs out. As a result, if we dereference srcpfns, dstpfns, or dmaaddrs, null pointer...

mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc which may return null if called with __GFP_NOFAIL

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Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the fact that vmalloc may return null when using the GFPNOFAIL call...

PT-2024-28065

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A null pointer dereference bug can occur in the Linux kernel when the physical memory runs out, causing the kcalloc function in dmirror device evict chunk to return null. If src pfns or...