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CVE-2021-46905

Public on 2024-02-26
Modified on 2024-02-28
Description

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

net: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression

Commit 8a12f8836145 ("net: hso: fix null-ptr-deref during tty device
unregistration") fixed the racy minor allocation reported by syzbot, but
introduced an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect
instead.

Specifically, the serial device table must no longer be accessed after
the minor has been released by hso_serial_tty_unregister().

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2021-05-20 15:51 ALAS2-2021-1636
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-01-20 23:18 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-001
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-12 00:00 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-003

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H