NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el9uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE9-KERNELUEKDEBUG-10780800
  • published18 Jul 2025
  • disclosed27 Dec 2024

Introduced: 27 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-53235  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:9 kernel-uek-debug to version 0:6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el9uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-20480.

NVD Description

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

erofs: fix file-backed mounts over FUSE

syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref in fuse_read_args_fill: fuse_read_folio+0xb0/0x100 fs/fuse/file.c:905 filemap_read_folio+0xc6/0x2a0 mm/filemap.c:2367 do_read_cache_folio+0x263/0x5c0 mm/filemap.c:3825 read_mapping_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:1011 [inline] erofs_bread+0x34d/0x7e0 fs/erofs/data.c:41 erofs_read_superblock fs/erofs/super.c:281 [inline] erofs_fc_fill_super+0x2b9/0x2500 fs/erofs/super.c:625

Unlike most filesystems, some network filesystems and FUSE need unavoidable valid file pointers for their read I/Os [1]. Anyway, those use cases need to be supported too.

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/vfs.html

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