Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-46677 - 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: gtp: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference When sockfd_lookup() fails, gtp_encap_enable_socket() returns a NULL pointer, but its callers only check for error pointers thus miss the NULL pointer case. Fix it by returning an error pointer with the error code carried from sockfd_lookup(). (I found this bug during code inspection.)
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/620fe9809752fae91b4190e897b81ed9976dfb39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd99e5f0ad5fa727b16f2101fe880aa2bff2f8e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bbb9e4e0e66a39282e582d0440724055404b38c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4643b91691e969b1b9ad54bf552d7a990cfa3b87
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8b9930b0eb045d19e883c65ff9676fc89320c70
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28c67f0f84f889fe9f4cbda8354132b20dc9212d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/612edd35f2a3910ab1f61c1f2338889d4ba99fa2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/defd8b3c37b0f9cb3e0f60f47d3d78d459d57fda