CVE-2024-26770: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nvidia-shield: Add missing null pointer checks to LED initialization devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity. [jkosina@suse.com: tweak changelog a bit]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6.19 (fixed in 6.6.19); from 6.7, before 6.7.7 (fixed in 6.7.7); version 6.8 only

Published 2024-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.