Bug 2266257 (CVE-2024-26604) - CVE-2024-26604 kernel: null pointer dereference in kobject
Summary: CVE-2024-26604 kernel: null pointer dereference in kobject
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-26604
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2266262
Blocks: 2266258
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-02-27 11:20 UTC by Rohit Keshri
Modified: 2024-06-09 12:51 UTC (History)
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Description Rohit Keshri 2024-02-27 11:20:24 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL"

This reverts commit 1b28cb81dab7c1eedc6034206f4e8d644046ad31.

It is reported to cause problems, so revert it for now until the root
cause can be found.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca8fbabcceb8bfe44f7f50640092fd8f1de375c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f414d306320f837cc3df96cf52161cb8290fb1b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b746d52ce7bcac325a2fa264216ead85b7fbbfaa
Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-02-27 11:41:45 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266262]
Comment 6 Alex 2024-06-09 12:51:34 UTC 
The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2024-26604 is: 	SKIP	The Fixes patch not applied yet, so unlikely that actual: 1b28cb81dab7c1eedc6034206f4e8d644046ad31	YES			NO	NO	unknown (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).
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