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Red Hat: CVE-2023-52744: kernel: RDMA/irdma: Fix potential NULL-ptr-dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

RDMA/irdma: Fix potential NULL-ptr-dereference

in_dev_get() can return NULL which will cause a failure once idev is
dereferenced in in_dev_for_each_ifa_rtnl(). This patch adds a
check for NULL value in idev beforehand.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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