Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-42282
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling
Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to
mtk_remove().
Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(),
eth->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.
By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it'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].
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 13.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
References
Products affected by CVE-2024-42282
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10.2