CVE-2024-49962 (GCVE-0-2024-49962)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-21 18:02
Modified
2026-05-11 20:42
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package() ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0 ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
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Linux Linux Version: 9957510255724c1c746c9a6264c849e9fdd4cd24
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