Threats tagged 'ghsa-9g63-jv3j-6766'

CVE-2024-37021 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem. The issue arises from the assumption that the parent device of the FPGA manager always has a driver with a valid owner pointer. This can lead to a null pointer dereference if the parent device lacks a driver. The vulnerability has been addressed by adding an explicit owner module pointer to the fpga_manager structure and updating the registration functions to use this pointer, preventing null dereferences and improving module reference counting.