CVE-2024-40960 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV5.3
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 12
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe()
syzbot caught a NULL dereference in rt6_probe() [1]
Bail out if __in6_dev_get() returns NULL.
[1]
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cb: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000658-0x000000000000065f]
CPU: 1 PID: 22444 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00383-gb84813…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6