An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. netvsc_get_ethtool_stats in drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c lacks check of the return value of kvmalloc_array() and will cause the null pointer dereference.
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=886e44c9298a6b428ae046e2fa092ca52e822e6a | patch vendor advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153060 | third party advisory issue tracking |