Security Advisory
CVE-2021-47186
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup
kmemdup can return a null pointer so need to check for it, otherwise
the null key will be dereferenced later in tipc_crypto_key_xmit as
can be seen in the trace [1].
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bca180abb29567b189efdbdb34cbf7ba851c2a58
Published Date
April 10, 2024
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory