Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: avoid a NULL dereference with unsupported widgets
If an IPC4 topology contains an unsupported widget, its .module_info field won’t be set, then sof_ipc4_route_setup() will cause a kernel Oops trying to dereference it. Add a check for such cases.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: avoid a NULL dereference with unsupported widgets
If an IPC4 topology contains an unsupported widget, its .module_info field won’t be set, then sof_ipc4_route_setup() will cause a kernel Oops trying to dereference it. Add a check for such cases.