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CVE-2024-43821

scsi: lpfc: Fix a possible null pointer dereference PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Fix a possible null pointer dereference In function lpfc_xcvr_data_show, the memory allocation with kmalloc might fail, thereby making rdp_context a null pointer. In the following context and functions that use this pointer, there are dereferencing operations, leading to null pointer dereference. To fix this issue, a null pointer check should be added. If it is null, use scnprintf to notify the user and return len.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 479b0917e4477f49df2e3be454aac3cfa5dec171 before 57600a7dd2b52c904f7c8d2cac0fd8c23868e680; affected 479b0917e4477f49df2e3be454aac3cfa5dec171 before 45b2a23e00d448a9e6d1f371ca3a4d4b073fe78c; affected 479b0917e4477f49df2e3be454aac3cfa5dec171 before 5e0bf3e8aec2cbc51123f84b29aaacbd91fc56fa
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.2; unaffected 0 before 6.2; unaffected 6.6.44 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.10.3 through 6.10.*; unaffected 6.11 through *

CWE

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