NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-7802184
  • published22 Aug 2024
  • disclosed21 Aug 2024

Introduced: 21 Aug 2024

CVE-2023-52908  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc 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/amdgpu: Fix potential NULL dereference

Fix potential NULL dereference, in the case when "man", the resource manager might be NULL, when/if we print debug information.

CVSS Scores

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