CVE-2024-49962 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()

ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0

ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb67e245dacd02b5e1d82733892647df1523982 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9b8775062f8d854a80caf186af57fc617d454c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f282db38953ad71dd4f3f8877a4e1d37e580e30a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4588ea78d3904bebb613b0bb025669e75800f546 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a907c113a8b66972f15f084d7dff960207b1f71d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5d4c7e76ba393d20366dfea1f39f24560ffb1d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5242874488eba2b9062985bf13743c029821330

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5