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CVE-2024-42282

net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling

EPSS 0.2%
Vexday Risk Score
3Bajo
Decisión SSVC (CISA)
Track
Sin señal de explotación → monitorear
CVSS EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Ciclo de vida
17 ago 2024Publicada en NVD
Recomendación: Monitorear — sin señal de explotación por ahora.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to mtk_remove(). Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(), eth->dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer dereference. By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it's only called when mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].
Productos afectados
Linux · Linux