Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: samsung: exynos-chipid: Add NULL pointer check in exynos_chipid_probe()
soc_dev_attr->revision could be NULL, thus, a pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference. This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02 (“ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c”).
This issue is found by our static analysis tool.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.4.0 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: samsung: exynos-chipid: Add NULL pointer check in exynos_chipid_probe()
soc_dev_attr->revision could be NULL, thus, a pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference. This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02 (“ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c”).
This issue is found by our static analysis tool.