NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELHEADERS-11394964
  • published3 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2024

Introduced: 1 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-48873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

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

wifi: rtw89: check return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() for RNR

The return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() might be NULL, so check it before using to avoid NULL pointer access.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1529805 ("Dereference null return value")