CVE-2024-38586
kernel: r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets.
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 19, 2024
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
in linux kernel r8169, when transmitting small fragmented packets, invalid entries were inserted into the transmit ring buffer, leading to calls to dma_unmap_single() with a null address.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable