Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create
If there are failures then we must not leave the non-NULL pointers with
the error value, otherwise rpcrdma_ep_destroy gets confused and tries
free them, resulting in an Oops.
Details
- Affected product:
- CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create
If there are failures then we must not leave the non-NULL pointers with
the error value, otherwise rpcrdma_ep_destroy gets confused and tries
free them, resulting in an Oops.