NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting bpftool package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BPFTOOL-12896398
  • published18 Sept 2025
  • disclosed17 Sept 2025

Introduced: 17 Sep 2025

CVE-2023-53335  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 bpftool to version 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:3138.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

RDMA/cxgb4: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in pass_establish()

If get_ep_from_tid() fails to lookup non-NULL value for ep, ep is dereferenced later regardless of whether it is empty. This patch adds a simple sanity check to fix the issue.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS Base Scores

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