Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get’s return value
cpufreq_cpu_get may return NULL. To avoid NULL-dereference check it and return 0 in case of error.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+7 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get’s return value
cpufreq_cpu_get may return NULL. To avoid NULL-dereference check it and return 0 in case of error.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.