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FKIE_CVE-2024-40928

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-12 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:46
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool() Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2 Called function pointer is null (null dereference). Return '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix this typo error.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25504f7fe60058b2a9553a9e424fb7dd9683843e
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3ba0557ab2ef15a3663e2fb9b1a3d628a8c3daa
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9e57e7ca77393b5b7072800370370b02eaad0f8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
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