5.5

CVE-2021-47186

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
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.82
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.5
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.16 Updaterc1
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.032
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.