CVE-2024-35878

of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf()

Medium · published May 19, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
55.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf()

In of_modalias(), we can get passed the str and len parameters which would

cause a kernel oops in vsnprintf() since it only allows passing a NULL ptr

when the length is also 0. Also, we need to filter out the negative values

of the len parameter as these will result in a really huge buffer since

snprintf() takes size_t parameter while ours is ssize_t...

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static

analysis tool.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00794 · 55.9th percentile
Published
2024-05-19T08:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 MAY 08:34Z
    of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf()
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