CVE-2024-35904 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure

In case kern_mount() fails and returns an error pointer return in the error branch instead of continuing and dereferencing the error pointer.

While on it drop the never read static variable selinuxfs_mount.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477ed6789eb9f3f4d3568bb977f90c863c12724e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68784a5d01b8868ff85a7926676b6729715fff3c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37801a36b4d68892ce807264f784d818f8d0d39b