CVE-2026-43148 (GCVE-0-2026-43148)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-06 11:27
VLAI?
Title
powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()
As kcalloc() may fail, check its return value to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference when passing it to of_property_read_u32_array().
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < 1de31dba19c3cd0c1caf388a286b46df638f0b91
(git)
Affected: 790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < b265e53d9adfbb5751713185843f7188aa9dd066 (git) Affected: 790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < 9d0ca11258e7b452653d04310addfec1753de1a2 (git) Affected: 790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < ca46d2092f307385a7acfb42632056570d6dbbbc (git) Affected: 790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < 9b85c8f624b0f8cf9b932f5a65dacd56a1f47a72 (git) Affected: 790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < 8b221db0b7d24675e465e98d9326d298025a4e8d (git) Affected: 790a1662d3a26fe9fa5f691386d8fde6bb8b0dc2 , < 33c1c6d8a28a2761ac74b0380b2563cf546c2a3a (git) |
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