Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-47572

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nexthop: fix null pointer dereference when IPv6 is not enabled When we try to add an IP...

SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-47086: phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe bsc1220952. - CVE-2021-47089: kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects bsc1220958. -...

K000140189: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2021-47572

Security Advisory Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nexthop: fix null pointer dereference when IPv6 is not enabled When we try to add an IPv6 nexthop and IPv6 is not enabled !CONFIGIPV6 we'll hit a NULL pointer dereference1 in the error path of...

CVE-2021-47572

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nexthop: fix null pointer dereference when IPv6 is not enabled When we try to add an IPv6 nexthop and IPv6 is not enabled !CONFIGIPV6 we'll hit a NULL pointer dereference1 in the error path of nhcreateipv6 due to calling...

CVE-2021-47572

CVE-2021-47572 affects the Linux kernel net: nexthop when adding an IPv6 nexthop while IPv6 is disabled (CONFIG_IPV6 not set). Root cause: nh_create_ipv6() dereferences ipv6_stub->fib6_nh_release in its error path, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. The fix returns the dummy stub’s -EAFNOS...