Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure
Check alloc_precpu()’s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does.
Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn’t being actively used.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure
Check alloc_precpu()’s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does.
Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn’t being actively used.