CVE-2024-26771

kernel: dmaengine: ti: edma: Add some null pointer checks to the edma_probe

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 3, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in the devm_kasprintf() function in the Enhanced Direct Memory Access (TI EDMA) driver in the Linux kernel, which returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory. This pointer could return NULL if the function fails, which could result in crashes or undefined behavior.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9 are not affected by this vulnerability because they do not build the affected driver.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-170 · Improper Null Termination