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CVE-2024-38551 Null pointer dereference

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: Assign dummy when codec not specified for a DAI link MediaTek sound card drivers are checking whether a DAI link is present and used on a board to assign the correct parameters and this is done by checking the codec DAI names at probe time. If no real codec is present, assign the dummy codec to the DAI link to avoid NULL pointer during string comparison.

CWE: CWE-476
CVSS v2-
CVSS v35.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b8dca6e06f9b1681bc52bf7bfa85c663a11158
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbbcabc7f0979f6542372cf88d7a9da7143a4226
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c052b1c11d8119f3048b1f7b3c39a90500cacf9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f39231888c63f0a7708abc86b51b847476379d8
Affected Vendors

Linux - (1)

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Null pointer dereference

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v27.1
AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS v39.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

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Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

PCI DSS v3.2.1-6.5.2 - Buffer Overflows

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

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