Description

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

spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix crash when not using GPIO chip select

Add check for the return value of spi_get_csgpiod() to avoid passing a NULL
pointer to gpiod_direction_output(), preventing a crash when GPIO chip
select is not used.

Fix below crash:
[ 4.251960] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 4.260762] Mem abort info:
[ 4.263556] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 4.267308] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 4.272624] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 4.275681] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 4.278822] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 4.283704] Data abort info:
[ 4.286583] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 4.292074] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 4.297130] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 4.302445] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 4.308805] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 4.315072] Modules linked in:
[ 4.318124] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-next-20241023-00008-ga20ec42c5fc1 #359
[ 4.328130] Hardware name: LS1046A QDS Board (DT)
[ 4.332832] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 4.339794] pc : gpiod_direction_output+0x34/0x5c
[ 4.344505] lr : gpiod_direction_output+0x18/0x5c
[ 4.349208] sp : ffff80008003b8f0
[ 4.352517] x29: ffff80008003b8f0 x28: 00000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50224

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.32% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50224
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e79c1f1c9100b4adc91c6512985db2cc961aafaa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f74c968319d040739d6238e1c3a4caa16a5a00
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f00a13dccf8e45441265768de46c8bf58e08f6

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