CVE-2024-42235 (GCVE-0-2024-42235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-07 15:14 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:28
VLAI
Title
s390/mm: Add NULL pointer check to crst_table_free() base_crst_free()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/mm: Add NULL pointer check to crst_table_free() base_crst_free() crst_table_free() used to work with NULL pointers before the conversion to ptdescs. Since crst_table_free() can be called with a NULL pointer (error handling in crst_table_upgrade() add an explicit check. Also add the same check to base_crst_free() for consistency reasons. In real life this should not happen, since order two GFP_KERNEL allocations will not fail, unless FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC is enabled and used.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6326c26c1514757242829b292b26eac589013200 , < 794fa52b94637d6b2e8c9474fbe3983af5c9f046 (git)
Affected: 6326c26c1514757242829b292b26eac589013200 , < f80bd8bb6f380bc265834c46058d38b34174813e (git)
Affected: 6326c26c1514757242829b292b26eac589013200 , < b5efb63acf7bddaf20eacfcac654c25c446eabe8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.41 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.10 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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