PT-2025-8775 · Linux+7 · Linux Kernel+7

Charles Han

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Published

2025-01-15

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Updated

2025-11-12

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CVE-2024-57988

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A NULL pointer dereference error in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue occurred in the btbcm get board name() function, where devm kstrdup() can return a NULL pointer on failure, but this returned value was not checked. This could lead to a kernel NULL pointer dereference error.
Recommendations For the affected Linux kernel versions, add a NULL check in the btbcm get board name() function to handle the kernel NULL pointer dereference error. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

NULL Pointer Dereference

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025:20095
ALSA-2025:20518
ALSA-2025_12746
ALSA-2025_12752
ALSA-2025_12753
ALSA-2025_16880
ALSA-2025_18281
ALSA-2025_19102
ALSA-2025_19103
ALSA-2025_19409
ALSA-2025_20518
BDU:2025-12217
CVE-2024-57988
INFSA-2025_20518
RHSA-2025:20095
RHSA-2025:20518
RHSA-2025_20518
SUSE-SU-2025:02254-1
SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SUSE-SU-2025:02333-1
SUSE-SU-2025_02254-1
SUSE-SU-2025_02307-1
SUSE-SU-2025_02333-1
USN-7521-1
USN-7521-2
USN-7521-3

Affected Products

Almalinux
Astra Linux
Linuxmint
Linux Kernel
Red Hat
Rocky Linux
Suse
Ubuntu