https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:22:21 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-42282 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling</p> <p>Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to mtk_remove().</p> <p>Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(), eth-&gt;dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer dereference.</p> <p>By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it&#39;s only called when mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling</p> <p>Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to mtk_remove().</p> <p>Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(), eth-&gt;dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer dereference.</p> <p>By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it&#39;s only called when mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-42282