Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in mlb_usio_probe()
devm_ioremap() can return NULL on error. Currently, mlb_usio_probe() does not check for this case, which could result in a NULL pointer dereference.
Add NULL check after devm_ioremap() to prevent this issue.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in mlb_usio_probe()
devm_ioremap() can return NULL on error. Currently, mlb_usio_probe() does not check for this case, which could result in a NULL pointer dereference.
Add NULL check after devm_ioremap() to prevent this issue.