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FKIE_CVE-2024-26770

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-04-03 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:18
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nvidia-shield: Add missing null pointer checks to LED initialization devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity. [jkosina@suse.com: tweak changelog a bit]
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83527a13740f57b45f162e3af4c7db4b88521100Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6eda11c44dc89a681e1c105f0f4660e69b1e183Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e71cc4a1e584293deafff1a7dea614b0210d0443Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83527a13740f57b45f162e3af4c7db4b88521100Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6eda11c44dc89a681e1c105f0f4660e69b1e183Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e71cc4a1e584293deafff1a7dea614b0210d0443Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.8
linux linux_kernel 6.8
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