Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: fix potential NULL pointer deref in nfc_genl_dump_ses_done
The done() netlink callback nfc_genl_dump_ses_done() should check if received argument is non-NULL, because its allocation could fail earlier in dumpit() (nfc_genl_dump_ses()).
Details
- Affected product:
- Ubuntu 16.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+1 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: fix potential NULL pointer deref in nfc_genl_dump_ses_done
The done() netlink callback nfc_genl_dump_ses_done() should check if received argument is non-NULL, because its allocation could fail earlier in dumpit() (nfc_genl_dump_ses()).