CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-47186
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup
kmemdup can return a null pointer so need to check for it, otherwise
the null key will be dereferenced later in tipc_crypto_key_xmit as
can be seen in the trace [1].
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bca180abb29567b189efdbdb34cbf7ba851c2a58
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6db079751afd527bf3db32314ae938dc571916
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9404c4145542c23019a80ab1bb2ecf73cd057b10
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d91625863d4ffed63b993b5e6dc1298b6430c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6db079751afd527bf3db32314ae938dc571916
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9404c4145542c23019a80ab1bb2ecf73cd057b10