Bug 2320557 (CVE-2024-49962)

Summary: CVE-2024-49962 kernel: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 19:10:39 UTC 
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.

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Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-10-22 16:30:24 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102132-CVE-2024-49962-8d16@gregkh/T
Comment 2 Avinash Hanwate 2024-10-23 04:17:33 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102132-CVE-2024-49962-8d16@gregkh/T
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:30:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966