CVE-2024-56730

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.12-6.12.2 - NULL Pointer Dereference in 9P USB Transport Memory Allocation

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report: ./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cdb416de8b5795fd25fadcb69e1198b6df6d8cc

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1060813d9347e8c45c8b8cff93a4dfdb6726ad

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 6.9%

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 (8)

linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.2linux

Linux/Linux < 6.12

Linux/Linux 6.12

Linux/Linux 6.12.2 - 6.12.*

Linux/Linux 6.13

Linux/Linux a3be076dc174d9022a71a12554feb4c97b5c4d5c - 2cdb416de8b5795fd25fadcb69e1198b6df6d8cc

Linux/Linux a3be076dc174d9022a71a12554feb4c97b5c4d5c - ff1060813d9347e8c45c8b8cff93a4dfdb6726ad

linux/linux_kernel 6.12 - 6.12.2

Published Dec 29, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026