NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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- published24 Apr 2025
- disclosed26 Feb 2025
Introduced: 26 Feb 2025
CVE-2022-49060 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: Fix NULL pointer dereference in smc_pnet_find_ib()
dev_name() was called with dev.parent as argument but without to NULL-check it before. Solve this by checking the pointer before the call to dev_name().
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49060
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22025513ced3d599ee8b24169141c95cf2467a4a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35b91e49bc80ca944a8679c3b139ddaf2f8eea0f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a523807f01455fe9a0c1a433f27cd4411ee400f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a05f5e26cb8bb4d07e0595545fcad1bb406f0085
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d22f4f977236f97e01255a80bca2ea93a8094fc8