CVE-2024-38637

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

greybus: lights: check return of get_channel_from_mode

If channel for the given node is not found we return null from get_channel_from_mode. Make sure we validate the return pointer before using it in two of the missing places.

This was originally reported in [0]: Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS

Affected packages:

kernel-uek @ 5.4.17 (+7 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

greybus: lights: check return of get_channel_from_mode

If channel for the given node is not found we return null from get_channel_from_mode. Make sure we validate the return pointer before using it in two of the missing places.

This was originally reported in [0]: Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]