vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-35891: kernel: net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 19, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

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

net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference

In lan8814_get_sig_rx() and lan8814_get_sig_tx() ptp_parse_header() may
return NULL as ptp_header due to abnormal packet type or corrupted packet.
Fix this bug by adding ptp_header check.

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

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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