NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-partner  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELMODULESPARTNER-6916697
  • published20 May 2024
  • disclosed19 May 2024

Introduced: 19 May 2024

CVE-2024-35891  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-partner package and not the kernel-modules-partner package as distributed by RHEL.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference

In lan8814_get_sig_rx() and lan8814_get_sig_tx() ptp_parse_header() may return NULL as ptp_header due to abnormal packet type or corrupted packet. Fix this bug by adding ptp_header check.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.