Use After Free Affecting perf package, versions <0:4.18.0-477.64.1.el8_8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PERF-7555652
  • published24 Jul 2024
  • disclosed3 Apr 2024

Introduced: 3 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-26735  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 perf to version 0:4.18.0-477.64.1.el8_8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:4740.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf 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:

ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref

The pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered before registering the generic netlink family.

CVSS Scores

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