Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression
Commit 8a12f8836145 (“net: hso: fix null-ptr-deref during tty device unregistration”) fixed the racy minor allocation reported by syzbot, but introduced an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect instead.
Specifically, the serial device table must no longer be accessed after the minor has been released by hso_serial_tty_unregister().
Details
- Affected product:
- CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 2.6.32 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression
Commit 8a12f8836145 (“net: hso: fix null-ptr-deref during tty device unregistration”) fixed the racy minor allocation reported by syzbot, but introduced an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect instead.
Specifically, the serial device table must no longer be accessed after the minor has been released by hso_serial_tty_unregister().