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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 19, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

dma-buf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sanitycheck()

CVE-2024-35916

Description

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

dma-buf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sanitycheck()

If due to a memory allocation failure mock_chain() returns NULL, it is passed to dma_fence_enable_sw_signaling() resulting in NULL pointer dereference there.

Call dma_fence_enable_sw_signaling() only if mock_chain() succeeds.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

52

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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