Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer
smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error: we previously assumed ‘rac97’ could be null (see line 2072)
remove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.4.0 (+15 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer
smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error: we previously assumed ‘rac97’ could be null (see line 2072)
remove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL.