NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-12397777
- published1 Sept 2025
- disclosed19 May 2024
Introduced: 19 May 2024
CVE-2024-35904 (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:
selinux: avoid dereference of garbage after mount failure
In case kern_mount() fails and returns an error pointer return in the error branch instead of continuing and dereferencing the error pointer.
While on it drop the never read static variable selinuxfs_mount.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35904
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37801a36b4d68892ce807264f784d818f8d0d39b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477ed6789eb9f3f4d3568bb977f90c863c12724e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68784a5d01b8868ff85a7926676b6729715fff3c