UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26770

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26770

    Published: 3 Apr 2024Last Modified: 2 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2024-26770

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nvidia-shield: Add missing null pointer checks to LED initialization devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity. [[email protected]: tweak changelog a bit]

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26770, https://git.kernel.org/linus/b6eda11c44dc89a681e1c105f0f4660e69b1e183, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83527a13740f57b45f162e3af4c7db4b88521100, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e71cc4a1e584293deafff1a7dea614b0210d0443, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6eda11c44dc89a681e1c105f0f4660e69b1e183, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26770

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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