Unchecked Return Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELRT-12024119
- published19 Aug 2025
- disclosed16 Aug 2025
Introduced: 16 Aug 2025
NewCVE-2025-38543 (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-rt package and not the kernel-rt package as distributed by Centos.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/tegra: nvdec: Fix dma_alloc_coherent error check
Check for NULL return value with dma_alloc_coherent, in line with Robin's fix for vic.c in 'drm/tegra: vic: Fix DMA API misuse'.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38543
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e0812eedccd0629d73c9d0b1184a5db055df1da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44306a684cd1699b8562a54945ddc43e2abc9eab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61b8d20962d00b7df117011c52f97cbb9c76a669
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a560de522374af931fa994d161db3667b0bb2545
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1240029f97ac8c06db4dd4407bbbf83e8d08570