{"id":"CVE-2024-43822","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-43822","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:58:18.411Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoc: PCM6240: Return directly after a failed devm_kzalloc() in pcmdevice_i2c_probe() The value “-ENOMEM” was assigned to the local variable “ret” in one if branch after a…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoc: PCM6240: Return directly after a failed devm_kzalloc() in pcmdevice_i2c_probe()\n\nThe value “-ENOMEM” was assigned to the local variable “ret”\nin one if branch after a devm_kzalloc() call failed at the beginning.\nThis error code will trigger then a pcmdevice_remove() call with a passed\nnull pointer so that an undesirable dereference will be performed.\nThus return the appropriate error code directly.","published":"2024-08-17T10:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:51:47.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00193,"percentile":0.08912,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3722873d49a1788d5420894d4f6f63e35f5c1f13","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa6f16eff7320c91e908309e31be34cbbe4b7e58","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43822","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}