FKIE_CVE-2021-47186

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-04-10 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:16
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup kmemdup can return a null pointer so need to check for it, otherwise the null key will be dereferenced later in tipc_crypto_key_xmit as can be seen in the trace [1]. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bca180abb29567b189efdbdb34cbf7ba851c2a58
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6db079751afd527bf3db32314ae938dc571916Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9404c4145542c23019a80ab1bb2ecf73cd057b10Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d91625863d4ffed63b993b5e6dc1298b6430c9Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6db079751afd527bf3db32314ae938dc571916Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9404c4145542c23019a80ab1bb2ecf73cd057b10Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d91625863d4ffed63b993b5e6dc1298b6430c9Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.16
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