The vulnerability of the nouveau/dmem components of the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the nouveau/dmem components in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to the assignment of the NULL pointer in the nouveaudmemevictchunk function. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

CVE-2024-26943: NULL Pointer Dereference

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau/dmem: handle kcalloc allocation failure The kcalloc in nouveaudmemevictchunk will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we dereference srcpfns, dstpfns or dmaaddrs, the null pointer dereference...