NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-10053308
- published6 May 2025
- disclosed26 Feb 2025
Introduced: 26 Feb 2025
CVE-2022-49429 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/hfi1: Prevent panic when SDMA is disabled
If the hfi1 module is loaded with HFI1_CAP_SDMA off, a call to hfi1_write_iter() will dereference a NULL pointer and panic. A typical stack frame is:
sdma_select_user_engine [hfi1] hfi1_user_sdma_process_request [hfi1] hfi1_write_iter [hfi1] do_iter_readv_writev do_iter_write vfs_writev do_writev do_syscall_64
The fix is to test for SDMA in hfi1_write_iter() and fail the I/O with EINVAL.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49429
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e4dda8b3f4c07ee9ea670a10ea3171a5e63a86f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22e7e400fd1a890db2ea13686324aff50e972f4f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29952ab85d6c3fe0b7909d9a737f10c58bf6824d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32e6aea33944f364d51cd263e4cd236393a188b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33794e8e9bcb4affc0ebff9cdec85acc8b8a1762
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/629e052d0c98e46dde9f0824f0aa437f678d9b8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc80d3c37cec9d6ddb140483647901bc7cc6c31d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e60ad83f645ee6fadd5a8057ba267aeec54f08fe