Bug 2278509 (CVE-2024-27071) - CVE-2024-27071 kernel: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Summary: CVE-2024-27071 kernel: backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-27071
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2278510
Blocks: 2278552
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Reported: 2024-05-01 21:31 UTC by Zack Miele
Modified: 2024-10-04 13:59 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: kernel 6.8.2, kernel 6.9-rc1
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Description Zack Miele 2024-05-01 21:31:07 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-27071 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050133-CVE-2024-27071-3b1b@gregkh/T
Comment 1 Zack Miele 2024-05-01 21:31:40 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2278510]
Comment 2 Alex 2024-06-09 12:45:39 UTC 
The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2024-27071 is: 	SKIP	No affected files built, so skip this CVE	NO			-	-	unknown (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).
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