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CVE-2025-40240

sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing chunk->skb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it's supposed to be NULL only. chunk->skb can only be NULL if chunk->head_skb is not. Check for frag_list instead and do it just before replacing chunk->skb. We're sure that otherwise chunk->skb is non-NULL because of outer if() condition.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 61cda2777b07d27459f5cac5a047c3edf9c8a1a9; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 08165c296597075763130919f2aae59b5822f016; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 03e80a4b04ef1fb2c61dd63216ab8d3a5dcb196f; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 4f6da435fb5d8a21cbf8cae5ca5a2ba0e1012b71; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before cb9055ba30306ede4ad920002233d0659982f1cb; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 7a832b0f99be19df608cb75c023f8027b1789bd1; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 89b465b54227c245ddc7cc9ed822231af21123ef; affected 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb before 441f0647f7673e0e64d4910ef61a5fb8f16bfb82
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.8; unaffected 0 before 4.8; unaffected 5.4.301 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.246 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.196 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.158 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.115 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.56 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.17.6 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

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References

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