NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-trace package, versions *
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- published29 Aug 2025
- disclosed6 Apr 2016
Introduced: 6 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-7914 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-rt-trace.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace package and not the kernel-rt-trace package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404939
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7914
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8d4a2ec1e0b41b0cf9a0c5cd4511da7f8e4f3de2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8d4a2ec1e0b41b0cf9a0c5cd4511da7f8e4f3de2