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:
- Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.19.0 (+4 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Planned | — |