Security Advisory

CVE-2021-46905

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-25 14:03:40
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:18:41
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression Commit 8a12f8836145 ("net: hso: fix null-ptr-deref during tty device unregistration") fixed the racy minor allocation reported by syzbot, but introduced an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect instead. Specifically, the serial device table must no longer be accessed after the minor has been released by hso_serial_tty_unregister().