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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pmdomain: arm: Fix NULL dereference on scmi_perf_domain removal On unloading of the scmi_perf_domain module got the below splat, when in the DT provided to the system under test the '#power-domain-cells' property was missing. Indeed, this particular setup causes the probe to bail out early without giving any error, which leads to the ->remove() callback gets to run too, but without all the expected initialized structures in place. Add a check and bail out early on remove too. Call trace: scmi_perf_domain_remove+0x28/0x70 [scmi_perf_domain] scmi_dev_remove+0x28/0x40 [scmi_core] device_remove+0x54/0x90 device_release_driver_internal+0x1dc/0x240 driver_detach+0x58/0xa8 bus_remove_driver+0x78/0x108 driver_unregister+0x38/0x70 scmi_driver_unregister+0x28/0x180 [scmi_core] scmi_perf_domain_driver_exit+0x18/0xb78 [scmi_perf_domain] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x1a8/0x2c0 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x128 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x34/0xb8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198 Code: a90153f3 f9403c14 f9414800 955f8a05 (b9400a80) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
While there are no complete fixes aside from conscientious programming, the following steps will go a long way to ensure that NULL pointer dereferences do not occur.
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/* make use of pointer1 *//* ... */If you are working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the if statement; and unlock when it has finished.
This example takes an IP address from a user, verifies that it is well formed and then looks up the hostname and copies it into a buffer.
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strcpy(hostname, hp->h_name);/*routine that ensures user_supplied_addr is in the right format for conversion */If an attacker provides an address that appears to be well-formed, but the address does not resolve to a hostname, then the call to gethostbyaddr() will return NULL. Since the code does not check the return value from gethostbyaddr (CWE-252), a NULL pointer dereference would then occur in the call to strcpy().
Note that this example is also vulnerable to a buffer overflow (see CWE-119).
In the following code, the programmer assumes that the system always has a property named "cmd" defined. If an attacker can control the program's environment so that "cmd" is not defined, the program throws a NULL pointer exception when it attempts to call the trim() method.
cmd = cmd.trim();This application has registered to handle a URL when sent an intent:
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}int length = URL.length();...The application assumes the URL will always be included in the intent. When the URL is not present, the call to getStringExtra() will return null, thus causing a null pointer exception when length() is called.
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