NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libperf-debuginfo 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
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBPERFDEBUGINFO-13886470
  • published12 Nov 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2024

Introduced: 1 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-57988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 libperf-debuginfo 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 libperf-debuginfo package and not the libperf-debuginfo 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:

Bluetooth: btbcm: Fix NULL deref in btbcm_get_board_name()

devm_kstrdup() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this returned value in btbcm_get_board_name() is not checked. Add NULL check in btbcm_get_board_name(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1