Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: aspeed: Add NULL pointer check in ast_vhub_init_dev()
The variable d->name, returned by devm_kasprintf(), could be NULL. 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”).
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Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+6 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: aspeed: Add NULL pointer check in ast_vhub_init_dev()
The variable d->name, returned by devm_kasprintf(), could be NULL. 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