NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-debug-modules-extra package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELDEBUGMODULESEXTRA-14294179
  • published10 Dec 2025
  • disclosed9 Dec 2025

Introduced: 9 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2023-53861  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-debug-modules-extra.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-modules-extra package and not the kernel-debug-modules-extra package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group

Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1