NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting perf package, versions <0:3.10.0-957.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PERF-4830017
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Mar 2018

Introduced: 7 Mar 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 perf to version 0:3.10.0-957.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3083.

NVD Description

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

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.