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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2023-52607) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2023-52607) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/06/2024
Created
06/07/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/06/2024

Description

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

powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory

which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful

by checking the pointer validity.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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