Bug 1220449 (CVE-2024-26604) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-26604: kernel: revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL"
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-26604: kernel: revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for w...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2024-26604
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Kernel Bugs
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/395189/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-26604:5.5:(AV:...
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Reported: 2024-02-27 13:39 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified: 2024-03-04 15:10 UTC (History)
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-02-27 13:39:03 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL"

This reverts commit 1b28cb81dab7c1eedc6034206f4e8d644046ad31.

It is reported to cause problems, so revert it for now until the root
cause can be found.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-26604
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26604
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266257
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022416-CVE-2024-26604-71a3@gregkh/T/#u

Patch:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca8fbabcceb8bfe44f7f50640092fd8f1de375c
Comment 1 Andrea Mattiazzo 2024-02-27 13:39:32 UTC 
Closing since all codestreams are not affected or already patched.