Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
Initialize ops member’s pointers properly by using kzalloc() instead of
kmalloc() when allocating the simulation work context. Otherwise the
pointers contain random content leading to invalid dereferencing.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.4.0 (+2 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
Initialize ops member’s pointers properly by using kzalloc() instead of
kmalloc() when allocating the simulation work context. Otherwise the
pointers contain random content leading to invalid dereferencing.