NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-64k-debug-modules-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNEL64KDEBUGMODULESINTERNAL-9580623
  • published1 Apr 2025
  • disclosed27 Mar 2025

Introduced: 27 Mar 2025

CVE-2023-52939  (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 kernel-64k-debug-modules-internal package and not the kernel-64k-debug-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.

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

mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()

As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"), hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to fix it.