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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-53120

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 2, 2024
Added
Oct 13, 2025
Modified
Oct 13, 2025

Description

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

net/mlx5e: CT: Fix null-ptr-deref in add rule err flow

In error flow of mlx5_tc_ct_entry_add_rule(), in case ct_rule_add()
callback returns error, zone_rule->attr is used uninitiated. Fix it to
use attr which has the needed pointer value.

Kernel log:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000110
RIP: 0010:mlx5_tc_ct_entry_add_rule+0x2b1/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]
…
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x20/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x3e0
? exc_page_fault+0x74/0x140
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? mlx5_tc_ct_entry_add_rule+0x2b1/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]
? mlx5_tc_ct_entry_add_rule+0x1d5/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_tc_ct_block_flow_offload+0xc6a/0xf90 [mlx5_core]
? nf_flow_offload_tuple+0xd8/0x190 [nf_flow_table]
nf_flow_offload_tuple+0xd8/0x190 [nf_flow_table]
flow_offload_work_handler+0x142/0x320 [nf_flow_table]
? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x15b/0x2b0
process_one_work+0x16c/0x320
worker_thread+0x28c/0x3a0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xb8/0xf0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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