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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

net/mlx5e: Fix NULL deref in mlx5e_tir_builder_alloc()

CVE-2024-50000

Description

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

net/mlx5e: Fix NULL deref in mlx5e_tir_builder_alloc()

In mlx5e_tir_builder_alloc() kvzalloc() may return NULL which is dereferenced on the next line in a reference to the modify field.

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

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