Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation
On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report:
./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure
kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 5.5/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 29, 2024
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified