cve-2024-35940
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-19 10:10
Modified
2024-12-19 08:58
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pstore/zone: Add a null pointer check to the psz_kmsg_read kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.
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