NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-selftests-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELSELFTESTSINTERNAL-13491865
  • published8 Oct 2025
  • disclosed7 Oct 2025

Introduced: 7 Oct 2025

CVE-2023-53648  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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-selftests-internal package and not the kernel-selftests-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.