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FKIE_CVE-2024-49962

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-21 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:00
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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 ]
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9b8775062f8d854a80caf186af57fc617d454cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/402b4c6b7500c7cca6972d2456a4a422801035b5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4588ea78d3904bebb613b0bb025669e75800f546Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4669da66ebc5b09881487f30669b0fcdb462188e
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5242874488eba2b9062985bf13743c029821330Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a907c113a8b66972f15f084d7dff960207b1f71dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5d4c7e76ba393d20366dfea1f39f24560ffb1dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb67e245dacd02b5e1d82733892647df1523982Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f282db38953ad71dd4f3f8877a4e1d37e580e30aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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