GHSA-c9g4-75m8-v388HighCVSS 7.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix null pointer...

Published
November 12, 2025
Last Modified
July 30, 2026

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📋 Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sunrpc: fix null pointer dereference on zero-length checksum

In xdr_stream_decode_opaque_auth(), zero-length checksum.len causes checksum.data to be set to NULL. This triggers a NPD when accessing checksum.data in gss_krb5_verify_mic_v2(). This patch ensures that the value of checksum.len is not less than XDR_UNIT.

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