NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-64k-modules-core package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELRT64KMODULESCORE-18882736
  • published18 Aug 2026
  • disclosed15 Aug 2026

Introduced: 15 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-74442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-rt-64k-modules-core.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-64k-modules-core package and not the kernel-rt-64k-modules-core 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:

drm/vmwgfx: avoid destroy_workqueue(NULL) on vkms init failure

Two paths through vmw_vkms_init() can leave vmw->crc_workq NULL while still leaving the rest of the driver in a state that calls vmw_vkms_cleanup() at module unload:

  1. vmw_host_get_guestinfo(GUESTINFO_VBLANK, ...) failing or returning an oversized buffer -- the common case on hosts without a VBLANK guestinfo entry -- early-returned before the workqueue allocation.
  2. alloc_ordered_workqueue() returning NULL on memory pressure.

vmw_vkms_cleanup() then calls destroy_workqueue(NULL), which dereferences wq->name and panics.

Fix the first case by removing the early return: vmw->vkms_enabled is already false on the rpci-failure path so no work will ever be queued, and allocating the workqueue unconditionally keeps the control flow simple. Fix the second case by guarding the cleanup with a NULL check, since alloc_ordered_workqueue() can still fail under low memory.

CVSS Base Scores

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