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Unscored CVE-2024-46793 EUVD-2024-42054GHSA-47fg-g734-5wff

ASoC: Intel: Boards: Fix NULL pointer deref in BYT/CHT boards harder

Published Sep 18, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-6.8 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia-lowlatency Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-riscv-6.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

ASoC: Intel: Boards: Fix NULL pointer deref in BYT/CHT boards harder

Since commit 13f58267cda3 ("ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component
via COMP_DUMMY()") dummy codecs declared like this:

SND_SOC_DAILINK_DEF(dummy,
DAILINK_COMP_ARRAY(COMP_DUMMY()));

expand to:

static struct snd_soc_dai_link_component dummy[] = {
};

Which means that dummy is a zero sized array and thus dais[i].codecs should
not be dereferenced *at all* since it points to the address of the next
variable stored in the data section as the "dummy" variable has an address
but no size, so even dereferencing dais[0] is already an out of bounds
array reference.

Which means that the if (dais[i].codecs->name) check added in
commit 7d99a70b6595 ("ASoC: Intel: Boards: Fix NULL pointer deref
in BYT/CHT boards") relies on that the part of the next variable which
the name member maps to just happens to be NULL.

Which apparently so far it usually is, except when it isn't
and then it results in crashes like this one:

[ 28.795659] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000030011
...
[ 28.795780] Call Trace:
[ 28.795787] <TASK>
...
[ 28.795862] ? strcmp+0x18/0x40
[ 28.795872] 0xffffffffc150c605
[ 28.795887] platform_probe+0x40/0xa0
...
[ 28.795979] ? __pfx_init_module+0x10/0x10 [snd_soc_sst_bytcr_wm5102]

Really fix things this time around by checking dais.num_codecs != 0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.8 6.10.10

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.10.11-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.10.11-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-50.51 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1020.22 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1020.23 USN-7196-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 6.8.0-1019.21 USN-7155-1, USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1015.19 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1002.4 USN-7156-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1017.17 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1019.21.1 USN-7155-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.8 6.8.0-1018.18 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1017.18 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1016.18 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-50.51.1 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1020.22~22.04.1 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1020.23~22.04.1 USN-7196-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1019.21~22.04.1 USN-7155-1, USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-50.51~22.04.1 USN-7154-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1017.18~22.04.1 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +31 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 +1 6.8.0-50.51.1~22.04.1 USN-7154-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2015.16 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1013.14 —

Advisories 6

References