CVE-2024-48881

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again Commit 028ddcac477b ("bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in node allocations") leads a NULL pointer deference in cache_set_flush(). 1721 if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c->root)) 1722 list_add(&c->root->list, &c->btree_cache); >From the above code in cache_set_flush(), if previous registration code fails before allocating c->root, it is possible c->root is NULL as what it is initialized. __bch_btree_node_alloc() never returns NULL but c->root is possible to be NULL at above line 1721. This patch replaces IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to fix this.

Impact & exploitability

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/336e30f32ae7c043fde0f6fa21586ff30bea9fe2 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/336e30f32ae7c043fde0f6fa21586ff30bea9fe2Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4379c5828492a4c2a651c8f826a01453bd2b80b0Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5202391970ffbf81975251b3526b890ba027b715Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e0e913624bcd24f3de414475018d3023f060ee1Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2e382ae12a63560fca35050498e19e760adf8c0Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc05aa2c0117e20fa25a3c0d915f98b8f2e78667Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb5fee35bdd18316a84b5f30881a24e1415e1464Patch
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html