# CVE-2024-42255: tpm: Use auth only after NULL check in tpm\_buf\_check\_hmac\_response()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-08-08 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.10

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: Use auth only after NULL check in tpm_buf_check_hmac_response() Dereference auth after NULL check in tpm_buf_check_hmac_response(). Otherwise, unless tpm2_sessions_init() was called, a call can cause NULL dereference, when TCG_TPM2_HMAC is enabled. [jarkko: adjusted the commit message.]

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9afbb9a0c734197c59c43610071041044bf1562
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dc357d343f134bf59815ff6098b93503ec8a23b

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