Security Advisory

CVE-2024-49962

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-10-21 18:02:14
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:42:54
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 ]