In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation
On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the
following error report:
./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns
NULL not ERR_PTR on failure
kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.
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Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report: ./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion. | |
Title | net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-12-29T11:30:07.876Z
Updated: 2025-01-20T06:27:07.990Z
Reserved: 2024-12-27T15:00:39.861Z
Link: CVE-2024-56730

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Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-12-29T12:15:07.130
Modified: 2025-01-07T21:23:52.260
Link: CVE-2024-56730
