NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-tools-libs package, versions <0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-13886165
  • published12 Nov 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2024

Introduced: 1 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-57989  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 kernel-tools-libs to version 0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:20095.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs 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:

wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix NULL deref check in mt7925_change_vif_links

In mt7925_change_vif_links() devm_kzalloc() may return NULL but this returned value is not checked.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1