Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show(). 171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i); 172 if (IS_ERR(label)) { 173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n"); 174 continue; 175 } The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well, otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.
References (6)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
0.6%
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-763
Status
published
Products (5)
linux/Kernel
< 6.1.91linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.31linux
linux/Kernel
6.5.0 - 6.8.10linux
linux/linux_kernel
6.9 rc1 (7 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
6.1.79 - 6.1.91
Published
May 30, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026