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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

net: ethernet: nixge: fix NULL dereference

CVE-2022-49019

Description

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

net: ethernet: nixge: fix NULL dereference

In function nixge_hw_dma_bd_release() dereference of NULL pointer priv->rx_bd_v is possible for the case of its allocation failure in nixge_hw_dma_bd_init().

Move for() loop with priv->rx_bd_v dereference under the check for its validity.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

125

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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