NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-11596900
  • published9 Aug 2025
  • disclosed17 Aug 2024

Introduced: 17 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-42276  (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-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

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

nvme-pci: add missing condition check for existence of mapped data

nvme_map_data() is called when request has physical segments, hence the nvme_unmap_data() should have same condition to avoid dereference.