Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-56688 - 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: sunrpc: clear XPRT_SOCK_UPD_TIMEOUT when reset transport Since transport->sock has been set to NULL during reset transport, XPRT_SOCK_UPD_TIMEOUT also needs to be cleared. Otherwise, the xs_tcp_set_socket_timeouts() may be triggered in xs_tcp_send_request() to dereference the transport->sock that has been set to NULL.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3811172e8c98ceebd12fe526ca6cb37a1263c964
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4db9ad82a6c823094da27de4825af693a3475d51
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/638a8fa5a7e641f9401346c57e236f02379a0c40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66d11ca91bf5100ae2e6b5efad97e58d8448843a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86a1f9fa24804cd7f9d7dd3f24af84fc7f8ec02e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87a95ee34a48dfad198a2002e4966e1d63d53f2b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc91d59d34ff6a6fee1c0b48612081a451e05e9a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6cbf0b2ac3cf4e21824a44eaa336564ed5e960