CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-48881

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, cache_set_flush() may dereference a NULL c->root pointer because the check IS_ERR_OR_NULL was replaced with IS_ERR. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference and potential system crash.

Risk Assessment

A kernel panic or system hang may occur, causing service unavailability and potential data loss.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that restores the IS_ERR_OR_NULL check in cache_set_flush().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again Commit 028ddcac477b ("bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in node allocations") leads a NULL pointer deference in cache_set_flush(). 1721 if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c->root)) 1722 list_add(&c->root->list, &c->btree_cache); >From the above code in cache_set_flush(), if previous registration code fails before allocating c->root, it is possible c->root is NULL as what it is initialized. __bch_btree_node_alloc() never returns NULL but c->root is possible to be NULL at above line 1721. This patch replaces IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to fix this.

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