CVE-2024-38612 – In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability h

CVE ID : CVE-2024-38612

Published : June 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: sr: fix invalid unregister error path

The error path of seg6_init() is wrong in case CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_LWTUNNEL
is not defined. In that case if seg6_hmac_init() fails, the
genl_unregister_family() isn’t called.

This issue exist since commit 46738b1317e1 (“ipv6: sr: add option to control
lwtunnel support”), and commit 5559cea2d5aa (“ipv6: sr: fix possible
use-after-free and null-ptr-deref”) replaced unregister_pernet_subsys()
with genl_unregister_family() in this error path.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more…CVE ID : CVE-2024-38612

Published : June 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: sr: fix invalid unregister error path

The error path of seg6_init() is wrong in case CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_LWTUNNEL
is not defined. In that case if seg6_hmac_init() fails, the
genl_unregister_family() isn’t called.

This issue exist since commit 46738b1317e1 (“ipv6: sr: add option to control
lwtunnel support”), and commit 5559cea2d5aa (“ipv6: sr: fix possible
use-after-free and null-ptr-deref”) replaced unregister_pernet_subsys()
with genl_unregister_family() in this error path.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more…