Bug 2420234 (CVE-2022-50651)

Summary: CVE-2022-50651 kernel: ethtool: eeprom: fix null-deref on genl_info in dump
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:02:16 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ethtool: eeprom: fix null-deref on genl_info in dump

The similar fix as commit 46cdedf2a0fa ("ethtool: pse-pd: fix null-deref on
genl_info in dump") is also needed for ethtool eeprom.