CVE-2024-40928

2024-07-1213:15:15

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

null dereference

ethtool

vulnerability

cve-2024-40928

EPSS

Percentile

15.9%

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.

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691

git.kernel.org/stable/c/6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22

git.kernel.org/stable/c/92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1

EPSS

Percentile

15.9%

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