fkie_cve-2024-49941
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-10-21 18:15
Modified
2024-10-25 15:17
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in gpiod_get_label() In `gpiod_get_label()`, it is possible that `srcu_dereference_check()` may return a NULL pointer, leading to a scenario where `label->str` is accessed without verifying if `label` itself is NULL. This patch adds a proper NULL check for `label` before accessing `label->str`. The check for `label->str != NULL` is removed because `label->str` can never be NULL if `label` is not NULL. This fixes the issue where the label name was being printed as `(efault)` when dumping the sysfs GPIO file when `label == NULL`.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b99b5ab885993bff010ebcd93be5e511c56e28aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee4b907d7a5d7a53b4ff7727c371ff3d44ccbbbPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.12


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         value: "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: gpiolib: Corrige la posible desreferencia de puntero NULL en gpiod_get_label() En `gpiod_get_label()`, es posible que `srcu_dereference_check()` pueda devolver un puntero NULL, lo que lleva a un escenario en el que se accede a `label->str` sin verificar si `label` en sí es NULL. Este parche agrega una comprobación NULL adecuada para `label` antes de acceder a `label->str`. La comprobación para `label->str != NULL` se elimina porque `label->str` nunca puede ser NULL si `label` no es NULL. Esto corrige el problema en el que el nombre de la etiqueta se imprimía como `(efault)` al volcar el archivo GPIO de sysfs cuando `label == NULL`.",
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   lastModified: "2024-10-25T15:17:30.543",
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