CVE-2024-43836 (GCVE-0-2024-43836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-17 09:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:30
VLAI
Title
net: ethtool: pse-pd: Fix possible null-deref
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethtool: pse-pd: Fix possible null-deref Fix a possible null dereference when a PSE supports both c33 and PoDL, but only one of the netlink attributes is specified. The c33 or PoDL PSE capabilities are already validated in the ethnl_set_pse_validate() call.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:08 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4d18e3ddf427d93a2895a1c9d61477e1f1726cad , < e187690b125a297499eadeec53c32c5ed6d7436a (git)
Affected: 4d18e3ddf427d93a2895a1c9d61477e1f1726cad , < 4cddb0f15ea9c62f81b4889ea69a99368cc63a86 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.3 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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