CVE-2024-57944

kernel: iio: adc: ti-ads1298: Add NULL check in ads1298_init

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · January 21, 2025

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

iio: adc: ti-ads1298: Add NULL check in ads1298_init

devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure. A check on the return value of such a call in ads1298_init() is missing. Add it.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference