Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-47440

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  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: encx24j600: check error in
    devm_regmap_init_encx24j600 devm_regmap_init may return error which caused by like out of memory, this
    will results in null pointer dereference later when reading or writing register: general protection fault
    in encx24j600_spi_probe KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000090-0x0000000000000097] CPU: 0 PID:
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    9c53a778c1306b1b02359f3c2bbedc0222cba652 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
    1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:regcache_cache_bypass drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c:540 Code: 54
    41 89 f4 55 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 e8 26 94 a8 fe 48 8d bb a0 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48
    89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 4a 03 00 00 4c 8d ab b0 00 00 00 48 8b ab a0 00 RSP:
    0018:ffffc900010476b8 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: fffffffffffffff4 RCX: 0000000000000000
    RDX: 0000000000000012 RSI: ffff888002de0000 RDI: 0000000000000094 RBP: ffff888013c9a000 R08:
    0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff3f9cc6a R10: ffffc900010476e8 R11: fffffbfff3f9cc69 R12: 0000000000000001
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    000055a6384136c8 CR3: 000000003bbe6003 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000
    DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554
    Call Trace: encx24j600_spi_probe drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c:459 spi_probe
    drivers/spi/spi.c:397 really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:517 __driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:751
    driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:782 __device_attach_driver drivers/base/dd.c:899 bus_for_each_drv
    drivers/base/bus.c:427 __device_attach drivers/base/dd.c:971 bus_probe_device drivers/base/bus.c:487
    device_add drivers/base/core.c:3364 __spi_add_device drivers/spi/spi.c:599 spi_add_device
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    fs/sysfs/file.c:139 kernfs_fop_write_iter fs/kernfs/file.c:300 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:508
    (discriminator 4) vfs_write fs/read_write.c:594 ksys_write fs/read_write.c:648 do_syscall_64
    arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113 Add error check in
    devm_regmap_init_encx24j600 to avoid this situation. (CVE-2021-47440)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}