vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-26855: kernel: net: ice: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in ice_bridge_setlink() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2024-04-17
Added
2024-09-13
Modified
2025-03-18

Description

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

net: ice: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in ice_bridge_setlink()

The function ice_bridge_setlink() may encounter a NULL pointer dereference
if nlmsg_find_attr() returns NULL and br_spec is dereferenced subsequently
in nla_for_each_nested(). To address this issue, add a check to ensure that
br_spec is not NULL before proceeding with the nested attribute iteration.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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