CVE-2024-46793

/// Technical description

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

ASoC: Intel: Boards: Fix NULL pointer deref in BYT/CHT boards harder

Since commit 13f58267cda3 ("ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component

via COMP_DUMMY()") dummy codecs declared like this:

SND_SOC_DAILINK_DEF(dummy,

DAILINK_COMP_ARRAY(COMP_DUMMY()));

expand to:

static struct snd_soc_dai_link_component dummy[] = {

};

Which means that dummy is a zero sized array and thus dais[i].codecs should

not be dereferenced *at all* since it points to the address of the next

variable stored in the data section as the "dummy" variable has an address

but no size, so even dereferencing dais[0] is already an out of bounds

array reference.

Which means that the if (dais[i].codecs->name) check added in

commit 7d99a70b6595 ("ASoC: Intel: Boards: Fix NULL pointer deref

in BYT/CHT boards") relies on that the part of the next variable which

the name member maps to just happens to be NULL.

Which apparently so far it usually is

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References