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Red Hat: CVE-2022-3107: NULL pointer dereference in netvsc_get_ethtool_stats() (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-3107: NULL pointer dereference in netvsc_get_ethtool_stats() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/14/2022
Created
06/14/2023
Added
06/13/2023
Modified
09/03/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. netvsc_get_ethtool_stats in drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c lacks check of the return value of kvmalloc_array() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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