NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-3459005
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2019

Introduced: 27 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9213  (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-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP platforms. This is related to a capability check for the wrong task.