CVE-2024-53205 (GCVE-0-2024-53205)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 13:49 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:52
VLAI
Title
phy: realtek: usb: fix NULL deref in rtk_usb2phy_probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: realtek: usb: fix NULL deref in rtk_usb2phy_probe In rtk_usb2phy_probe() devm_kzalloc() may return NULL but this returned value is not checked.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 134e6d25f6bd06071e5aac0a7eefcea6f7713955 , < 7e2cde1813418b39b5e95d86e10d6701dccf18af (git)
Affected: 134e6d25f6bd06071e5aac0a7eefcea6f7713955 , < 7a784bcdd7e54f0599da3b2360e472238412623e (git)
Affected: eeda494542e55b603c7b80e14bfc5ee4ab7f9814 , < 0b398b6b6c94315fd2ce3658e3cee96539dbd7b7 (git)
Affected: eeda494542e55b603c7b80e14bfc5ee4ab7f9814 , < fb83c9a08324e37f321ffb400809aa4310387d65 (git)
Affected: eeda494542e55b603c7b80e14bfc5ee4ab7f9814 , < 04e3e9188291a183b27306ddb833722c0d083d6a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.4 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.11 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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