NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNEL-6743151
  • published 30 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 28 Apr 2024

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

sfc: fix null pointer dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit

Trying to get the channel from the tx_queue variable here is wrong because we can only be here if tx_queue is NULL, so we shouldn't dereference it. As the above comment in the code says, this is very unlikely to happen, but it's wrong anyway so let's fix it.

I hit this issue because of a different bug that caused tx_queue to be NULL. If that happens, this is the error message that we get here: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020 [...] RIP: 0010:efx_hard_start_xmit+0x153/0x170 [sfc]

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

4.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

5.5 medium