NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-debug-modules-internal (opens in a new tab)
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- published27 May 2024
- disclosed24 May 2024
Introduced: 24 May 2024
CVE-2021-47501 (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-debug-modules-internal package and not the kernel-debug-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i40e: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc
When trying to dump VFs VSI RX/TX descriptors using debugfs there was a crash due to NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc. Added a check to i40e_dbg_dump_desc that checks if VSI type is correct for dumping RX/TX descriptors.