CVE-2024-26943

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau/dmem: handle kcalloc() allocation failure The kcalloc() in nouveau_dmem_evict_chunk() will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we dereference src_pfns, dst_pfns or dma_addrs, the null pointer dereference bugs will happen. Moreover, the GPU is going away. If the kcalloc() fails, we could not evict all pages mapping a chunk. So this patch adds a __GFP_NOFAIL flag in kcalloc(). Finally, as there is no need to have physically contiguous memory, this patch switches kcalloc() to kvcalloc() in order to avoid failing allocations.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.84linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.24linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.12linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.8.3linux
Linux/Linux < 6.1
Linux/Linux 249881232e1471d28b68f9a3829acc14d150cf5d - 16e87fe23d4af6df920406494ced5c0f4354567b
Linux/Linux 249881232e1471d28b68f9a3829acc14d150cf5d - 2a84744a037b8a511d6a9055f3defddc28ff4a4d
Linux/Linux 249881232e1471d28b68f9a3829acc14d150cf5d - 3e82f7383e0b82a835e6b6b06a348b2bc4e2c2ee
Linux/Linux 249881232e1471d28b68f9a3829acc14d150cf5d - 5e81773757a95fc298e96cfd6d4700f07b6192a2
Linux/Linux 249881232e1471d28b68f9a3829acc14d150cf5d - 9acfd8b083a0ffbd387566800d89f55058a68af2
... and 8 more
Published May 01, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026