Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: picolcd: prevent NULL pointer dereference in picolcd_send_and_wait()
In picolcd_send_and_wait(), an integer overflow of the signed loop counter ‘k’ can theoretically lead to a NULL pointer dereference of ‘raw_data’. If the loop executes more than INT_MAX times, ‘k’ becomes negative, making the condition ‘k < size’ true even when ‘size’ is 0.
Change the type of ‘k’ to ‘unsigned int’ to prevent the overflow and eliminate the out-of-bounds access.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static analysis tool.
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Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.19.0 (+17 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | Released |
13 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 | In Rollout |
2 kernels
|