NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-core package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-6537151
  • published 4 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 3 Apr 2024

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core 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:

spi: hisi-sfc-v3xx: Return IRQ_NONE if no interrupts were detected

Return IRQ_NONE from the interrupt handler when no interrupt was detected. Because an empty interrupt will cause a null pointer error:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual

address 0000000000000008 Call trace: complete+0x54/0x100 hisi_sfc_v3xx_isr+0x2c/0x40 [spi_hisi_sfc_v3xx] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x64/0x1e0 handle_irq_event+0x7c/0x1cc

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

4.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

5.5 medium