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CVE-2021-46905

net: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression Commit 8a12f8836145 ("net: hso: fix null-ptr-deref during tty device unregistration") fixed the racy minor allocation reported by syzbot, but introduced an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect instead. Specifically, the serial device table must no longer be accessed after the minor has been released by hso_serial_tty_unregister().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected a462067d7c8e6953a733bf5ade8db947b1bb5449 before 5871761c5f0f20d6e98bf3b6bd7486d857589554; affected 145c89c441d27696961752bf51b323f347601bee before 0c71d4c89559f72cec2592d078681a843bce570e; affected caf5ac93b3b5d5fac032fc11fbea680e115421b4 before 24b699bea7553fc0b98dad9d864befb6005ac7f1; affected 92028d7a31e55d53e41cff679156b9432cffcb36 before 5c17cfe155d21954b4c7e2a78fa771cebcd86725; affected 4a2933c88399c0ebc738db39bbce3ae89786d723 before d7fad2ce15bdbbd0fec3ebe999fd7cab2267f53e; affected dc195928d7e4ec7b5cfc6cd10dc4c8d87a7c72ac before 90642ee9eb581a13569b1c0bd57e85d962215273; affected 388d05f70f1ee0cac4a2068fd295072f1a44152a before 0f000005da31f6947f843ce6b3e3a960540c6e00; affected 8a12f8836145ffe37e9c8733dce18c22fb668b66 before 41c44e1f3112d7265dae522c026399b2a42d19ef; affected 8a12f8836145ffe37e9c8733dce18c22fb668b66 before 2ad5692db72874f02b9ad551d26345437ea4f7f3; affected 4.19.187 before 4.19.189; affected 5.4.112 before 5.4.115; affected 5.10.30 before 5.10.33; affected 5.11.14 before 5.11.17
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.12; unaffected 0 before 5.12; unaffected 4.19.189 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.115 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.33 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.11.17 through 5.11.*; unaffected 5.12.1 through 5.12.*; unaffected 5.13 through *

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