CVE-2024-35904

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure In case kern_mount() fails and returns an error pointer return in the error branch instead of continuing and dereferencing the error pointer. While on it drop the never read static variable selinuxfs_mount.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68784a5d01b8868ff85a7926676b6729715fff3c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477ed6789eb9f3f4d3568bb977f90c863c12724e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37801a36b4d68892ce807264f784d818f8d0d39b

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-05-19

Updated: 2024-06-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium