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CVE-2021-47186

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-04-10 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References