CVE-2021-47186

Published Apr 10, 2024

Last updated 4 months ago

Overview

Description
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
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-690

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