CVE-2025-21848 (GCVE-0-2025-21848)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-12 09:42 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:38
VLAI?
Title
nfp: bpf: Add check for nfp_app_ctrl_msg_alloc()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfp: bpf: Add check for nfp_app_ctrl_msg_alloc() Add check for the return value of nfp_app_ctrl_msg_alloc() in nfp_bpf_cmsg_alloc() to prevent null pointer dereference.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < d64c6ca420019712e194fe095b55f87363e22a9a (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < e976ea6c5e1b005c64467cbf94a8577aae9c7d81 (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < 924b239f9704566e0d86abd894d2d64bd73c11eb (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < 1358d8e07afdf21d49ca6f00c56048442977e00a (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < 29ccb1e4040da6ff02b7e64efaa2f8e6bf06020d (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < 897c32cd763fd11d0b6ed024c52f44d2475bb820 (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < bd97f60750bb581f07051f98e31dfda59d3a783b (git)
Affected: ff3d43f7568c82b335d7df2d40a31447c3fce10c , < 878e7b11736e062514e58f3b445ff343e6705537 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.291 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.235 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.179 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.130 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.80 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.17 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.5 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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