NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package realtime-kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-REALTIMEKERNEL-9890585
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2015

Introduced: 1 Jan 2015

CVE-2015-8816  (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 realtime-kernel package and not the realtime-kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 does not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by unplugging a USB hub device.

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