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CVE-2024-38575

kernel: wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: handle randbuf allocation failure

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 19, 2024

Updated · October 29, 2026

Description

in linux kernel wifi, the kzalloc() in brcmf_pcie_download_fw_nvram() will return null if the physical memory has run out. Thereafter if get_random_bytes() is used, a null pointer dereference is triggered, causing allocation failure.

CVSS score applicability

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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-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference