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Tracker / CVE-2021-46991

CVE-2021-46991

High 7.8

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")

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.16 → 4.19.191
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.120
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.11.22
linux linux_kernel · 5.12 → 5.12.5
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.38

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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