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GHSA-HCHJ-593H-JX3R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-17 15:31 – Updated: 2025-09-19 18:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: fix panic in kdump kernel

Check if get_next_variable() is actually valid pointer before calling it. In kdump kernel this method is set to NULL that causes panic during the kexec-ed kernel boot.

Tested with QEMU and OVMF firmware.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2024-35800 (GCVE-0-2024-35800)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:43

Title

efi: fix panic in kdump kernel

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: fix panic in kdump kernel Check if get_next_variable() is actually valid pointer before calling it. In kdump kernel this method is set to NULL that causes panic during the kexec-ed kernel boot. Tested with QEMU and OVMF firmware.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-05-28 15:54 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6637 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9d103aca85f082a3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9114ba9987506bcfb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7784135f134c13af1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/090d2b4515ade379c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62b71cd73d41ddac6…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.3 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.84 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.24 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.7.12 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8.3 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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