CVE-2024-56773 (GCVE-0-2024-56773)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-08 17:49 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:58
VLAI
Title
kunit: Fix potential null dereference in kunit_device_driver_test()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kunit: Fix potential null dereference in kunit_device_driver_test() kunit_kzalloc() may return a NULL pointer, dereferencing it without NULL check may lead to NULL dereference. Add a NULL check for test_state.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: d03c720e03bd9bf0b784d80b5d3ede7e2daf3b6e , < 5d28fac59369b5d3c48cdf09e50275a61ff91202 (git)
Affected: d03c720e03bd9bf0b784d80b5d3ede7e2daf3b6e , < 435c20eed572a95709b1536ff78832836b2f91b1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.4 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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