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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2024-47756

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: keystone: Fix if-statement expression in ks_pcie_quirk() This code accidentally uses && where || was intended. It potentially results in a NULL dereference. Thus, fix the if-statement expression to use the correct condition. [kwilczynski: commit log]

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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  • Published