NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-debug-modules-extra  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDEBUGMODULESEXTRA-6488495
  • published26 Mar 2024
  • disclosed25 Mar 2024

Introduced: 25 Mar 2024

CVE-2021-47149  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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-debug-modules-extra package and not the kernel-debug-modules-extra package as distributed by RHEL.

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

net: fujitsu: fix potential null-ptr-deref

In fmvj18x_get_hwinfo(), if ioremap fails there will be NULL pointer deref. To fix this, check the return value of ioremap and return -1 to the caller in case of failure.