CVE-2024-46677 gtp: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

2024-09-1305:29:12

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

vulnerability

cve-2024-46677

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.)

CNA Affected

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