NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-ipaclones-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELIPACLONESINTERNAL-9224141
  • published5 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

CVE-2022-49060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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-ipaclones-internal package and not the kernel-ipaclones-internal 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().