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Access of Uninitialized Pointer The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)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-7975352
  • published14 Sept 2024
  • disclosed14 Apr 2020
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Introduced: 14 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-12770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (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.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.11. sg_write lacks an sg_remove_request call in a certain failure case, aka CID-83c6f2390040.

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