CVE-2024-35940

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a null pointer dereference in the psz kmsg read function. This can lead to a denial of service. The kasprintf() function returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory, which can be NULL upon failure. A null pointer check has been added to ensure the allocation was successful.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.