NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-7236838
- published 10 Jun 2024
- disclosed 21 May 2024
Introduced: 21 May 2024
CVE-2021-47307 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: prevent NULL deref in cifs_compose_mount_options()
The optional @ref parameter might contain an NULL node_name, so prevent dereferencing it in cifs_compose_mount_options().
Addresses-Coverity: 1476408 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47307
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03313d1c3a2f086bb60920607ab79ac8f8578306
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae3d181f4e912f51af7776ea165f199b16fc165d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e58c162789becede894d3e94c0ce6695a2ef5796
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d1fa65e74263d11f90ddd33b4d4cd905a93759
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