CVE-2024-47809

Technical Description

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

dlm: fix possible lkb_resource null dereference

This patch fixes a possible null pointer dereference when this function is

called from request_lock() as lkb->lkb_resource is not assigned yet,

only after validate_lock_args() by calling attach_lkb(). Another issue

is that a resource name could be a non printable bytearray and we cannot

assume to be ASCII coded.

The log functionality is probably never being hit when DLM is used in

normal way and no debug logging is enabled. The null pointer dereference

can only occur on a new created lkb that does not have the resource

assigned yet, it probably never hits the null pointer dereference but we

should be sure that other changes might not change this behaviour and we

actually can hit the mentioned null pointer dereference.

In this patch we just drop the printout of the resource name, the lkb id

is enough to make a possible connection to a resource name if this

exists.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References