CVE-2024-35940: Debian Linux

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: pstore/zone: Add a null pointer check to the psz_kmsg_read kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.10.215 (fixed in 5.10.215); from 5.11, before 5.15.155 (fixed in 5.15.155); from 5.16, before 6.1.86 (fixed in 6.1.86); from 6.2, before 6.6.27 (fixed in 6.6.27); from 6.7, before 6.8.6 (fixed in 6.8.6)

Published 2024-05-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.