CVE-2024-40928 net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()

2024-07-1212:25:07

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

net

ethtool

vulnerability

clang static checker

error condition

null dereference

eopnotsupp

get_ethtool_phy_stats.

EPSS

Percentile

15.9%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()

Clang static checker (scan-build) warning:
net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2
Called function pointer is null (null dereference).

Return ‘-EOPNOTSUPP’ when ‘ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats’ is NULL to fix
this typo error.

CNA Affected

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