Local crash via unchecked IRQ name allocation
Published Apr 3, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's TI EDMA driver allows local users to crash the system during device initialization. In edma_probe, two devm_kasprintf calls can return NULL for interrupt-name allocations, yet the results are passed to devm_request_irq without validation. The path requires local low-privileged access and TI EDMA probe activity under allocation failure; the effect is limited to availability.
Summary
What happened
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's TI EDMA driver allows local users to crash the system during device initialization. In edma_probe, two devm_kasprintf calls can return NULL for interrupt-name allocations, yet the results are passed to devm_request_irq without validation. The path requires local low-privileged access and TI EDMA probe activity under allocation failure; the effect is limited to availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26771
- Published
- Apr 3, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-476, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 3, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.4
- Affected versionversion=d4cb7f404247173e2c760a01bf06fd1016a8b0d4 <4fe4e5adc7d29d214c59b59f61db73dec505ca3d
- Affected versionversion=d4cb7f404247173e2c760a01bf06fd1016a8b0d4 <6e2276203ac9ff10fc76917ec9813c660f627369
- Affected versionversion=d4cb7f404247173e2c760a01bf06fd1016a8b0d4 <7b24760f3a3c7ae1a176d343136b6c25174b7b27
- Affected versionversion=d4cb7f404247173e2c760a01bf06fd1016a8b0d4 <9d508c897153ae8dd79303f7f035f078139f6b49
- Affected versionversion=d4cb7f404247173e2c760a01bf06fd1016a8b0d4 <c432094aa7c9970f2fa10d2305d550d3810657ce
- Affected versionversion=d4cb7f404247173e2c760a01bf06fd1016a8b0d4 <f2a5e30d1e9a629de6179fa23923a318d5feb29e
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