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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELMODULESEXTRAMATCHED-14087069
  • published21 Nov 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2025

Introduced: 22 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38664  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-modules-extra-matched.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-extra-matched package and not the kernel-modules-extra-matched package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg()

Add check for the return value of devm_kmemdup() to prevent potential null pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1