NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-internal (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELMODULESINTERNAL-13491861
- published8 Oct 2025
- disclosed7 Oct 2025
Introduced: 7 Oct 2025
CVE-2023-53648 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-internal package and not the kernel-modules-internal package as distributed by Centos.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer
smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error: we previously assumed 'rac97' could be null (see line 2072)
remove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53648
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09baf460dfba79ee6a0c72e68ccdbbba84d894df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/228da1fa124470606ac19783e551f9d51a1e01b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/300e26e3e64880de5013eac8831cf44387ef752c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f13d67027fa782096e6aee0db5dce61c4aeb613
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79597c8bf64ca99eab385115743131d260339da5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/809af7bb4219bdeef0dbb8b2ed700d6516d13fe9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d28b83252e150155b8b8c65b612c555e93c8b45f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4cccff1e7ab6ea30995b6fbbb007d02647e025c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f923a582217b198b557756809ffe42ac0fad6adb