NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting bpftool package, versions <0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BPFTOOL-12897193
  • published18 Sept 2025
  • disclosed17 Sept 2025

Introduced: 17 Sep 2025

CVE-2022-50354  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 bpftool to version 0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:7077.

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:

drm/amdkfd: Fix kfd_process_device_init_vm error handling

Should only destroy the ib_mem and let process cleanup worker to free the outstanding BOs. Reset the pointer in pdd->qpd structure, to avoid NULL pointer access in process destroy worker.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 Call Trace: amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_unmap_gtt_bo_from_kernel+0x46/0xb0 [amdgpu] kfd_process_device_destroy_cwsr_dgpu+0x40/0x70 [amdgpu] kfd_process_destroy_pdds+0x71/0x190 [amdgpu] kfd_process_wq_release+0x2a2/0x3b0 [amdgpu] process_one_work+0x2a1/0x600 worker_thread+0x39/0x3d0

CVSS Base Scores

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