CVE-2021-47186 (GCVE-0-2021-47186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-10 18:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:49
VLAI
Title
tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup kmemdup can return a null pointer so need to check for it, otherwise the null key will be dereferenced later in tipc_crypto_key_xmit as can be seen in the trace [1]. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bca180abb29567b189efdbdb34cbf7ba851c2a58
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-15 14:53 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1ef6f7c9390ff5308c940ff8d0a53533a4673ad9 , < a7d91625863d4ffed63b993b5e6dc1298b6430c9 (git)
Affected: 1ef6f7c9390ff5308c940ff8d0a53533a4673ad9 , < 9404c4145542c23019a80ab1bb2ecf73cd057b10 (git)
Affected: 1ef6f7c9390ff5308c940ff8d0a53533a4673ad9 , < 3e6db079751afd527bf3db32314ae938dc571916 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.82 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.5 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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linux linux_kernel Affected: 1da177e4c3f4 , < a7d91625863d (custom)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f4 , < 9404c4145542 (custom)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f4 , < 3e6db079751a (custom)
Unaffected: 5.10.82 , ≤ 5.11 (custom)
Unaffected: 5.15.5 , ≤ 5.16 (custom)
Unaffected: 5.16
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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