NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-64k package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNEL64K-8546042
  • published20 Dec 2024
  • disclosed17 Dec 2024

Introduced: 17 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53240  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-64k.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64k package and not the kernel-64k package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device

When removing a netfront device directly after a suspend/resume cycle it might happen that the queues have not been setup again, causing a crash during the attempt to stop the queues another time.

Fix that by checking the queues are existing before trying to stop them.

This is XSA-465 / CVE-2024-53240.

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