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CVE-2024-49941

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CVE-2024-49941

Published: Oct 21, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in gpiod_get_label() In `gpiod_get_label()`, it is possible that `srcu_dereference_check()` may return a NULL pointer, leading to a scenario where `label->str` is accessed without verifying if `label` itself is NULL. This patch adds a proper NULL check for `label` before accessing `label->str`. The check for `label->str != NULL` is removed because `label->str` can never be NULL if `label` is not NULL. This fixes the issue where the label name was being printed as `(efault)` when dumping the sysfs GPIO file when `label == NULL`.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
a86d27693066a34a29be86f394bbad847b2d1749 - < 9ee4b907d7a5d7a53b4ff7727c371ff3d44ccbbb
affected
a86d27693066a34a29be86f394bbad847b2d1749 - < 7b99b5ab885993bff010ebcd93be5e511c56e28a

Linux

Linux

affected
6.9
unaffected
0 - < 6.9
unaffected
6.11.3 - <= 6.11.*
unaffected
6.12 - <= *

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