{"id":"AZL-56139","summary":"CVE-2024-48881 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.76.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again\n\nCommit 028ddcac477b (\"bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in\nnode allocations\") leads a NULL pointer deference in cache_set_flush().\n\n1721         if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c-\u003eroot))\n1722                 list_add(&c-\u003eroot-\u003elist, &c-\u003ebtree_cache);\n\n\u003eFrom the above code in cache_set_flush(), if previous registration code\nfails before allocating c-\u003eroot, it is possible c-\u003eroot is NULL as what\nit is initialized. __bch_btree_node_alloc() never returns NULL but\nc-\u003eroot is possible to be NULL at above line 1721.\n\nThis patch replaces IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to fix this.","modified":"2026-04-01T05:18:48.492782Z","published":"2025-01-11T13:15:23Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-48881"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48881"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.76.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-56139.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}