CVE-2024-58081

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

Description A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been identified, related to the initialization of the power management domain (genpd). The issue arises when the genpd struct's device name is not set before calling pm genpd init(), leading to a potential NULL pointer dereference. This can cause a kernel crash when creating the devfs hierarchy for the power domain. The crash is characterized by an "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" error.

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