cve-2021-47496
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-22 08:19
Modified
2024-11-04 12:07
Severity ?
Summary
net/tls: Fix flipped sign in tls_err_abort() calls
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da353fac65fede6b8b4cfe207f0d9408e3121105
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0cfd5159f314d6b304d030363650b06a2299cbb
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41473543f75f7dbc5d605007e6f883f1bd13b9a
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3dec7e7ace38224f82cf83f0049159d067c2e19
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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