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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 19, 2024· Updated Dec 18, 2025

nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done

CVE-2021-47612

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done

When kmalloc in nfc_genl_dump_devices() fails then nfc_genl_dump_devices_done() segfaults as below

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 0 PID: 25 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc4-01180-g2a987e65025e-dirty #5 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-6.fc35 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events netlink_sock_destruct_work RIP: 0010:klist_iter_exit+0x26/0x80 Call Trace:

class_dev_iter_exit+0x15/0x20 nfc_genl_dump_devices_done+0x3b/0x50 genl_lock_done+0x84/0xd0 netlink_sock_destruct+0x8f/0x270 __sk_destruct+0x64/0x3b0 sk_destruct+0xa8/0xd0 __sk_free+0x2e8/0x3d0 sk_free+0x51/0x90 netlink_sock_destruct_work+0x1c/0x20 process_one_work+0x411/0x710 worker_thread+0x6fd/0xa80

Affected products

147

Patches

0

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