Bug 2320557 (CVE-2024-49962) - CVE-2024-49962 kernel: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()
Summary: CVE-2024-49962 kernel: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-49962
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2321033
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-21 19:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 08:30 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:6966 0 None None None 2025-05-13 08:30:39 UTC

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.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
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
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