NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-4882771
published26 Jul 2021
disclosed7 Mar 2018

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Introduced: 7 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1130 (opens in a new tab) CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

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

Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/dccp/output.c in that allows a local user to cause a denial of service by a number of certain crafted system calls.