NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perf  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PERF-18634674
  • published12 Aug 2026
  • disclosed10 Aug 2026

Introduced: 10 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-68291  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

idpf: fix max_vport related crash on allocation error during init

Set adapter->max_vports only after successful allocation of vports, netdevs and vport_config buffers. This fixes possible crashes on reset or rmmod, following failed allocation on init

[ 305.981402] idpf 0000:83:00.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0102) [ 305.994464] idpf 0000:83:00.0: Device HW Reset initiated [ 320.416872] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 320.416918] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 320.416942] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 320.416963] PGD 2099657067 P4D 0 [ 320.416983] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... [ 320.417093] RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x118/0x200 [idpf] [ 320.417130] Code: 8b bb 98 09 00 00 e8 17 0f 5b e5 48 8b bb e8 08 00 00 e8 0b 0f 5b e5 66 83 bb 28 06 00 00 00 48 8b bb 20 06 00 00 74 49 31 ed <48> 8b 04 ef 48 85 c0 74 2f 48 8b 78 20 e8 66 58 91 e5 48 8b 83 20 [ 320.417183] RSP: 0018:ff7322212903fdb8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 320.417205] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff4463de40300000 RCX: ff7322212903fd4c [ 320.417228] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffffa7f7d100 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 320.417250] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 320.417272] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ff4463de3a638f58 R12: ff4463be89ac7000 [ 320.417294] R13: ff4463be89ac7198 R14: ff4463be94fc7198 R15: ffffffffc0f10f20 [ 320.417317] FS: 00007f963c0e6740(0000) GS:ff4463fdd65d8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 320.417342] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 320.417362] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000020ba674002 CR4: 0000000000773ef0 [ 320.417385] PKRU: 55555554 [ 320.417398] Call Trace: [ 320.417412] <TASK> [ 320.417429] pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0 [ 320.417459] device_release_driver_internal+0x1a9/0x210 [ 320.417492] driver_detach+0x4b/0x90 [ 320.417516] bus_remove_driver+0x70/0x100 [ 320.417539] pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xb0 [ 320.417564] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x190/0x2f0 [ 320.417592] ? kmem_cache_free+0x31e/0x550 [ 320.417619] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xde/0x190 [ 320.417644] ? do_syscall_64+0x38/0x6b0 [ 320.417665] do_syscall_64+0xc8/0x6b0 [ 320.417683] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80 [ 320.417706] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 320.417727] RIP: 0033:0x7f963bb30beb