{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2024-02-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: NULL-deref on disconnect regression",
    "id" : "2266253",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266253"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnet: hso: fix NULL-deref on disconnect regression\nCommit 8a12f8836145 (\"net: hso: fix null-ptr-deref during tty device\nunregistration\") fixed the racy minor allocation reported by syzbot, but\nintroduced an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect\ninstead.\nSpecifically, the serial device table must no longer be accessed after\nthe minor has been released by hso_serial_tty_unregister().", "A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. This flaw occurs due to an unconditional NULL-pointer dereference on every disconnect in the Linux kernel." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:4140",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-348.rt7.130.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:4356",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-348.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46905\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46905\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022557-CVE-2021-46905-6507@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-46905",
  "csaw" : false
}