Asymmetric denial of service In linux

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s udmabuf subsystem where the scatter-gather (sg) pointer was not properly set to NULL if creation of the sg table failed. If userspace attempts to map a dmabuf and the sg table allocation fails (e.g., due to memory exhaustion), the kernel later attempts to free an invalid sg pointer during dmabuf release, causing a NULL pointer dereference and kernel crash

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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