Expired Pointer Dereference Affecting openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-OPENSHIFTOSERHELCOREOS9-21954555
  • published30 Oct 2026
  • disclosed23 Oct 2026

Introduced: 23 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-99027  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package and not the openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 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:

net: team: stop reusing skb after queue override

A nonzero dev_queue_xmit() result does not return ownership of the skb. When an override port's qdisc drops it, the queue override helper used to try another port or the mode transmit op with the freed skb.

Return the handoff decision separately from transmit success. Select only the first override port under RCU and stop after handing it the skb, regardless of the lower transmit result. Keep the existing success and drop accounting.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_skb_reason_drop Write of size 4 by task poc/5040 sk_skb_reason_drop (net/core/skbuff.c:1240) dev_kfree_skb_any_reason (net/core/dev.c:3470) ab_transmit (drivers/net/team/team_mode_activebackup.c:49) team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1849) __dev_direct_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4934) Freed by task 5040: __tcf_kfree_skb_list (net/sched/sch_generic.c:43) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4831) team_xmit (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1846) Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1