CVE-2021-46991 (GCVE-0-2021-46991)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-28 08:13
Modified
2026-05-11 13:45
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 7b0b1a6d0ac983ce1928432285d0222d4fb7c38b Version: 7b0b1a6d0ac983ce1928432285d0222d4fb7c38b Version: 7b0b1a6d0ac983ce1928432285d0222d4fb7c38b Version: 7b0b1a6d0ac983ce1928432285d0222d4fb7c38b Version: 7b0b1a6d0ac983ce1928432285d0222d4fb7c38b Version: 7b0b1a6d0ac983ce1928432285d0222d4fb7c38b |
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