Expired 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
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELMODULESEXTRAMATCHED-14965199
  • published16 Jan 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2025

Introduced: 1 Jan 2025

CVE-2025-71131  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (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:

crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt

As soon as crypto_aead_encrypt is called, the underlying request may be freed by an asynchronous completion. Thus dereferencing req->iv after it returns is invalid.

Instead of checking req->iv against info, create a new variable unaligned_info and use it for that purpose instead.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1