NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELRTDEBUGKVM-6488407
  • published26 Mar 2024
  • disclosed25 Mar 2024

Introduced: 25 Mar 2024

CVE-2021-47149  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 kernel-rt-debug-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: fujitsu: fix potential null-ptr-deref

In fmvj18x_get_hwinfo(), if ioremap fails there will be NULL pointer deref. To fix this, check the return value of ioremap and return -1 to the caller in case of failure.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1