NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-debug package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRTDEBUG-8553053
  • published28 Dec 2024
  • disclosed27 Dec 2024

Introduced: 27 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-56667  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-rt-debug.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug package and not the kernel-rt-debug package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

drm/i915: Fix NULL pointer dereference in capture_engine

When the intel_context structure contains NULL, it raises a NULL pointer dereference error in drm_info().

(cherry picked from commit 754302a5bc1bd8fd3b7d85c168b0a1af6d4bba4d)

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