Bug 2309853 (CVE-2024-44990)

Summary:	CVE-2024-44990 kernel: bonding: fix null pointer deref in bond_ipsec_offload_ok
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-04 20:21:59 UTC

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

bonding: fix null pointer deref in bond_ipsec_offload_ok

We must check if there is an active slave before dereferencing the pointer.

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-09-04 21:46:13 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024090446-CVE-2024-44990-6b62@gregkh/T

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-05 00:50:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:8870 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8870

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-05 01:10:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:8856 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8856

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-03-05 02:40:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:2270 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2270

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-04-30 01:01:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:4341 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4341