Bug 1223734 (CVE-2024-27071)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-27071: kernel: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	carlos.lopez, vasant.karasulli
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/403862/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-27071:5.5:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-05-02 12:20:03 UTC

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

backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

The "im" pins are optional. Add missing check in the hx8357_probe().

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-27071
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27071
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67e578c8ff2d7df03bf8ca9a7f5436b1796f6ad1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1ba8bcb2d1ffce11b308ce166c9cc28d989e3b9
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-27071.mbox
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278509

Comment 12 Andrea Mattiazzo 2024-05-29 12:12:28 UTC

All done, closing.