NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-18650082
  • published12 Aug 2026
  • disclosed10 Aug 2026

Introduced: 10 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-68385  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-tools-libs-devel.

NVD Description

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

s390/checksum: Fix csum_partial() without vector facility

Currently csum_partial() calls csum_copy() with copy=false and dst=NULL. On machines without the vector facility, csum_copy() falls back to cksm(dst, ...), causing the checksum to be calculated from address zero instead of the source buffer.

The VX implementation already checksums data loaded from src. Make the fallback do the same by passing src to cksm().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1