cve-2021-47517
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-24 15:09
Modified
2024-11-04 12:07
Severity ?
Summary
ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c26da3be1e9843a15b5318f90db8a564479d2ac
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfd719f04267108f5f5bf802b9d7de69e99a99f9
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dde91ccfa25fd58f64c397d91b81a4b393100ffa
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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