CVE-2024-43818 - Null pointer dereference
CVE Information
Original CVE data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: amd: Adjust error handling in case of absent codec device acpi_get_first_physical_node() can return NULL in several cases (no such device, ACPI table error, reference count drop to 0, etc). Existing check just emit error message, but doesn't perform return. Then this NULL pointer is passed to devm_acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() where it is dereferenced. Adjust this error handling by adding error code return. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Linux - (1)
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Null pointer dereference
Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs
No exploit code is reported to exist.
Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog
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