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ghsa-h6wr-63v9-2m6h

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-04-10 21:30

Modified

2024-04-10 21:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux: fix NULL-pointer dereference when hashtab allocation fails

When the hash table slot array allocation fails in hashtab_init(), h->size is left initialized with a non-zero value, but the h->htable pointer is NULL. This may then cause a NULL pointer dereference, since the policydb code relies on the assumption that even after a failed hashtab_init(), hashtab_map() and hashtab_destroy() can be safely called on it. Yet, these detect an empty hashtab only by looking at the size.

Fix this by making sure that hashtab_init() always leaves behind a valid empty hashtab when the allocation fails.

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cve-2021-47218

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-04-10 19:01

Modified

2024-11-04 12:01

Severity ?

Summary

selinux: fix NULL-pointer dereference when hashtab allocation fails

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b17dd53cac769dd13031b0ca34f90cc65e523fab
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c8ab8503adf56bf68dafc7a382f4946c87da79
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc27f3c5d10c58069672215787a96b4fae01818b

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Linux	Linux
	Linux	Linux

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