# CVE-2024-35878: of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf()

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-19 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.4

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf() In of_modalias(), we can get passed the str and len parameters which would cause a kernel oops in vsnprintf() since it only allows passing a NULL ptr when the length is also 0. Also, we need to filter out the negative values of the len parameter as these will result in a really huge buffer since snprintf() takes size_t parameter while ours is ssize_t... Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static analysis tool.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a449368a2ce6d57a775d0ead27fc07f5a86e5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/544561dc56f7e69a053c25e11e6170f48bb97898
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1aa5390cc912934fee76ce80af5f940452fa987

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