CVE-2024-40928

2024-07-1213:15:00

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osv.dev

cve-2024-40928

linux kernel

ethtool vulnerability

clang static checker

fix

error condition

null dereference

eopnotsupp

typo error

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

Low

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool() Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2 Called function pointer is null (null dereference). Return ‘-EOPNOTSUPP’ when ‘ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats’ is NULL to fix this typo error.