CVE-2024-38575

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38575
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38575.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-38575
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Published
2024-06-19T14:15:17Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: handle randbuf allocation failure

The kzalloc() in brcmfpciedownloadfwnvram() will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we use getrandombytes() to generate random bytes in the randbuf, the null pointer dereference bug will happen.

In order to prevent allocation failure, this patch adds a separate function using buffer on kernel stack to generate random bytes in the randbuf, which could prevent the kernel stack from overflow.

References

Affected packages