vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-47257: kernel: net: ieee802154: fix null deref in parse dev addr (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Aug 12, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ieee802154: fix null deref in parse dev addr

Fix a logic error that could result in a null deref if the user sets
the mode incorrectly for the given addr type.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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