CVE - CVE-2024-50160

CVE-ID
CVE-2024-50160	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix possible NULL dereference If snd_hda_gen_add_kctl fails to allocate memory and returns NULL, then NULL pointer dereference will occur in the next line. Since dolphin_fixups function is a hda_fixup function which is not supposed to return any errors, add simple check before dereference, ignore the fail. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21dc97d5086fdabbe278786bb0a03cbf2e26c793 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21dc97d5086fdabbe278786bb0a03cbf2e26c793 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e19aca8db696b6ba4dd8c73657405e15c695f14 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e19aca8db696b6ba4dd8c73657405e15c695f14 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8971fd61210d75fd2af225621cd2fcc87eb1847c URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8971fd61210d75fd2af225621cd2fcc87eb1847c MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5dd71a8b849626f42d08a5e73d382f2016fc7bc URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5dd71a8b849626f42d08a5e73d382f2016fc7bc MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9bd4a82b4ed32c6d1c90500a52063e6e341517f URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9bd4a82b4ed32c6d1c90500a52063e6e341517f
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20241021	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20241021)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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