CVE-2024-53069

Summary

CVE-2024-53069 is a recently identified vulnerability in the Linux kernel. This issue involves a NULL-pointer dereference in the qcom SCM driver. Under certain conditions, some SCM calls can be executed with the __scm pointer being null. If this occurs, the driver may not have been probed due to the absence of an SCM entry in the device-tree. To address this vulnerability, the Linux kernel team has resolved the issue by ensuring that NULL pointers are not dereferenced.

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