NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-devel-matched package, versions <0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELDEVELMATCHED-13338522
  • published7 Oct 2025
  • disclosed4 Oct 2025

Introduced: 4 Oct 2025

CVE-2023-53566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:9 kernel-devel-matched to version 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel-matched package and not the kernel-devel-matched 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:

netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion

There is no guarantee that rb_prev() will not return NULL in nft_rbtree_gc_elem():

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] nft_add_set_elem+0x14b0/0x2990 nf_tables_newsetelem+0x528/0xb30

Furthermore, there is a possible use-after-free while iterating, 'node' can be free'd so we need to cache the next value to use.

CVSS Base Scores

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