Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-kdump-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELKDUMPDEVEL-6298369
  • published28 Feb 2024
  • disclosed26 Feb 2024

Introduced: 26 Feb 2024

CVE-2019-25162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-kdump-devel package and not the kernel-kdump-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

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

i2c: Fix a potential use after free

Free the adap structure only after we are done using it. This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the use after free.

[wsa: added comment to the code, added Fixes tag]