Access of Uninitialized Pointer The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rv  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RV-16473472
  • published7 May 2026
  • disclosed6 May 2026

Introduced: 6 May 2026

CVE-2026-43272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (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 rv package and not the rv package as distributed by RHEL.

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

ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer

There is a pointer head_page in rb_meta_validate_events() which is not initialized at the beginning of a function. This pointer can be dereferenced if there is a failure during reader page validation. In this case the control is passed to "invalid" label where the pointer is dereferenced in a loop.

To fix the issue initialize orig_head and head_page before calling rb_validate_buffer.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.