NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-8018573
- published 17 Sep 2024
- disclosed 13 Sep 2024
Introduced: 13 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-46686 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-doc.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb/client: avoid dereferencing rdata=NULL in smb2_new_read_req()
This happens when called from SMB2_read() while using rdma and reaching the rdma_readwrite_threshold.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46686
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6df57c63c200cd05e085c3b695128260e21959b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a01859dd6aebf826576513850a3b05992809e9d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b902fb78ab21299e4dd1775e7e8d251d5c0735bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c724b2ab6a46435b4e7d58ad2fbbdb7a318823cf
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