Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-40928 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool() Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2 Called function pointer is null (null dereference). Return '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix this typo error.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1