NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers  (opens in a new tab)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-11956528
  • published18 Aug 2025
  • disclosed18 Jun 2025

Introduced: 18 Jun 2025

CVE-2022-50016  (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:

ASoC: SOF: Intel: cnl: Do not process IPC reply before firmware boot

It is not yet clear, but it is possible to create a firmware so broken that it will send a reply message before a FW_READY message (it is not yet clear if FW_READY will arrive later). Since the reply_data is allocated only after the FW_READY message, this will lead to a NULL pointer dereference if not filtered out.

The issue was reported with IPC4 firmware but the same condition is present for IPC3.