Security Advisory
CVE-2021-47186
CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup kmemdup can return a null pointer so need to check for it, otherwise the null key will be dereferenced later in tipc_crypto_key_xmit as can be seen in the trace [1]. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bca180abb29567b189efdbdb34cbf7ba851c2a58