NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bpftool  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-BPFTOOL-9126199
  • published5 Mar 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-57987  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by RHEL.

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

Bluetooth: btrtl: check for NULL in btrtl_setup_realtek()

If insert an USB dongle which chip is not maintained in ic_id_table, it will hit the NULL point accessed. Add a null point check to avoid the Kernel Oops.