FKIE_CVE-2021-46991

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-28 09:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:16
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i40e: Fix use-after-free in i40e_client_subtask() Currently the call to i40e_client_del_instance frees the object pf->cinst, however pf->cinst->lan_info is being accessed after the free. Fix this by adding the missing return. Addresses-Coverity: ("Read from pointer after free")
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd5d262e7442192ac7611ff1597a36c5b044323Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38318f23a7ef86a8b1862e5e8078c4de121960c3Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ebc10aa7cd17fd9857dedac69600465c9dd16d1Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/829a713450b8fb127cbabfc1244c1d8179ec5107Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1322eaeb8af0d8985b5cc5fa759140fa0e57b84Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d718c15a2bf9ae082d5ae4d177fb19ef23cb4132Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd5d262e7442192ac7611ff1597a36c5b044323Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38318f23a7ef86a8b1862e5e8078c4de121960c3Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ebc10aa7cd17fd9857dedac69600465c9dd16d1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/829a713450b8fb127cbabfc1244c1d8179ec5107Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1322eaeb8af0d8985b5cc5fa759140fa0e57b84Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d718c15a2bf9ae082d5ae4d177fb19ef23cb4132Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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linux linux_kernel *
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