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

net/mlx5: Use mlx5_ipsec_rx_status_destroy to correctly delete status rules

rx_create no longer allocates a modify_hdr instance that needs to be
cleaned up. The mlx5_modify_header_dealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer
dereference. A leak in the rules also previously occurred since there are
now two rules populated related to status.

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 109907067 P4D 109907067 PUD 116890067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 1 PID: 484 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2-rrameshbabu+ #254
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:mlx5_modify_header_dealloc+0xd/0x70
  <snip>
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ? show_regs+0x60/0x70
   ? __die+0x24/0x70
   ? page_fault_oops+0x15f/0x430
   ? free_to_partial_list.constprop.0+0x79/0x150
   ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2c9/0x5c0
   ? exc_page_fault+0x63/0x110
   ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
   ? mlx5_modify_header_dealloc+0xd/0x70
   rx_create+0x374/0x590
   rx_add_rule+0x3ad/0x500
   ? rx_add_rule+0x3ad/0x500
   ? mlx5_cmd_exec+0x2c/0x40
   ? mlx5_create_ipsec_obj+0xd6/0x200
   mlx5e_accel_ipsec_fs_add_rule+0x31/0xf0
   mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0x426/0xc00
  <snip>

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-36281
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36281
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16d66a4fa81da07bc4ed19f4e53b87263c2f8d38
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0a15cde37a8388e57573686f650a17208ae1212
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc9ac559f2e21894c21ac5b0c85fb24a5cab266c
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-36281.mbox