1223734 – (CVE-2024-27071) VUL-0: CVE-2024-27071: kernel: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Bug 1223734 (CVE-2024-27071) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-27071: kernel: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-27071: kernel: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer ...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2024-27071

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Security Team bot
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/403862/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-27071:5.5:(AV:...
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Reported:	2024-05-02 12:20 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified:	2024-07-08 14:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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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.