CVE-2024-35904

selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure

EPSS 0.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

19 May 2024Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37801a36b4d68892ce807264f784d818f8d0d39b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477ed6789eb9f3f4d3568bb977f90c863c12724e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68784a5d01b8868ff85a7926676b6729715fff3c http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/2