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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 10, 2024· Updated May 20, 2025

tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup

CVE-2021-47186

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 products

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