NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting bpftool package, versions <0:5.15.0-310.184.5.2.el9uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE9-BPFTOOL-10765314
  • published17 Jul 2025
  • disclosed18 Sept 2024

Introduced: 18 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-46742  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:9 bpftool to version 0:5.15.0-310.184.5.2.el9uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-20470.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

smb/server: fix potential null-ptr-deref of lease_ctx_info in smb2_open()

null-ptr-deref will occur when (req_op_level == SMB2_OPLOCK_LEVEL_LEASE) and parse_lease_state() return NULL.

Fix this by check if 'lease_ctx_info' is NULL.

Additionally, remove the redundant parentheses in parse_durable_handle_context().

CVSS Base Scores

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