NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting bpftool package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.145.1.el8_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BPFTOOL-8699561
  • published8 Feb 2025
  • disclosed16 Jul 2024

Introduced: 16 Jul 2024

CVE-2022-48773  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 bpftool to version 0:4.18.0-305.145.1.el8_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:10265.

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:

xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create

If there are failures then we must not leave the non-NULL pointers with the error value, otherwise rpcrdma_ep_destroy gets confused and tries free them, resulting in an Oops.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1