Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-53183

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - um: net: Do not use drvdata in release The drvdata is not available in release. Let's just use containerof to get the umlnet instance. Otherwise, removing a...

CVE-2024-53183 um: net: Do not use drvdata in release

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: um: net: Do not use drvdata in release The drvdata is not available in release. Let's just use containerof to get the umlnet instance. Otherwise, removing a network device will result in a crash: RIP:...

CVE-2024-53183 um: net: Do not use drvdata in release

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: um: net: Do not use drvdata in release The drvdata is not available in release. Let's just use containerof to get the umlnet instance. Otherwise, removing a network device will result in a crash: RIP:...

CVE-2024-53183

CVE-2024-53183 concerns a Linux kernel vulnerability: in uml/net handling, the code previously used drvdata during device release, but drvdata may not exist at release time. The fix is to retrieve the uml_net instance with container_of() instead of drvdata, preventing a crash when removing a netw...