CVE-2024-46677 Information

Description

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.)

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5