NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-headers package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-7236866
  • published10 Jun 2024
  • disclosed21 May 2024

Introduced: 21 May 2024

CVE-2021-47307  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

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. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

cifs: prevent NULL deref in cifs_compose_mount_options()

The optional @ref parameter might contain an NULL node_name, so prevent dereferencing it in cifs_compose_mount_options().

Addresses-Coverity: 1476408 ("Explicit null dereferenced")

CVSS Scores

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