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
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELMODULESEXTRAMATCHED-15312761
  • published19 Feb 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2025

Introduced: 1 Jan 2025

CVE-2025-71233  (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:

PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously

The asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a NULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the work completes.

The crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands:

cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test

for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088 ... Call Trace: configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190 pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110 process_one_work+0x18f/0x350 worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0

Fix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not have the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require the delayed work handler.

[mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1