Bug 2153066 (CVE-2022-3106) - CVE-2022-3106 Kernel: kmalloc's return value not checked, leading to null pointer dereference
Summary: CVE-2022-3106 Kernel: kmalloc's return value not checked, leading to null poi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-3106
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 2153051
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Reported: 2022-12-13 22:07 UTC by Sage McTaggart
Modified: 2023-04-01 08:44 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: Linux 5.17-rc6
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Description Sage McTaggart 2022-12-13 22:07:18 UTC 
[Suggested description]
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6.
ef100_update_stats in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c lacks check
of the return value of kmalloc().

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[VulnerabilityType Other]
NULL Pointer Dereference

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[Vendor of Product]
the development group

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[Affected Product Code Base]
Linux kernel - 5.16-rc6

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[Reference]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=407ecd1bd726f240123f704620d46e285ff30dd9

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[Discoverer]
Jiasheng Jiang
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