vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-53180: kernel: ALSA: pcm: Add sanity NULL check for the default mmap fault handler

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

ALSA: pcm: Add sanity NULL check for the default mmap fault handler

A driver might allow the mmap access before initializing its
runtime->dma_area properly. Add a proper NULL check before passing to
virt_to_page() for avoiding a panic.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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