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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRTDEBUGDEVEL-9032317
  • published2 Mar 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-21755  (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-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-devel package and not the kernel-rt-debug-devel 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:

vsock: Orphan socket after transport release

During socket release, sock_orphan() is called without considering that it sets sk->sk_wq to NULL. Later, if SO_LINGER is enabled, this leads to a null pointer dereferenced in virtio_transport_wait_close().

Orphan the socket only after transport release.

Partially reverts the 'Fixes:' commit.

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] lock_acquire+0x19e/0x500 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x47/0x70 add_wait_queue+0x46/0x230 virtio_transport_release+0x4e7/0x7f0 __vsock_release+0xfd/0x490 vsock_release+0x90/0x120 __sock_release+0xa3/0x250 sock_close+0x14/0x20 __fput+0x35e/0xa90 __x64_sys_close+0x78/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x93/0x1b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

CVSS Base Scores

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