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CVE-2024-40928 (GCVE-0-2024-40928)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:25 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:22
VLAI
Title
net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool() Clang static checker (scan-build) warning: net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2 Called function pointer is null (null dereference). Return '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix this typo error.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:05 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c882f2178f22f3740e20a6bd6b8df1c0500301bf , < 25504f7fe60058b2a9553a9e424fb7dd9683843e (git)
Affected: 72d1c4a07780e24827c29bad203a1167d67181ed , < c3ba0557ab2ef15a3663e2fb9b1a3d628a8c3daa (git)
Affected: 981c6e178cf333ac9568665e6d786f795f5cb3ad , < f9e57e7ca77393b5b7072800370370b02eaad0f8 (git)
Affected: 201ed315f9676809cd5b20a39206e964106d4f27 , < 6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22 (git)
Affected: 201ed315f9676809cd5b20a39206e964106d4f27 , < 92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1 (git)
Affected: 201ed315f9676809cd5b20a39206e964106d4f27 , < 0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.35 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.6 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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