NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-ipaclones-internal (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELIPACLONESINTERNAL-8685951
- published4 Feb 2025
- disclosed31 Jan 2025
Introduced: 31 Jan 2025
CVE-2025-21666 (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-ipaclones-internal package and not the kernel-ipaclones-internal package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock: prevent null-ptr-deref in vsock_*[has_data|has_space]
Recent reports have shown how we sometimes call vsock_*_has_data() when a vsock socket has been de-assigned from a transport (see attached links), but we shouldn't.
Previous commits should have solved the real problems, but we may have more in the future, so to avoid null-ptr-deref, we can return 0 (no space, no data available) but with a warning.
This way the code should continue to run in a nearly consistent state and have a warning that allows us to debug future problems.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21666
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91751e248256efc111e52e15115840c35d85abaf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e5fed46ccd2c34c5fa5a9c8825ce4823fdc853e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b52e50dd4fabd12944172bd486a4f4853b7f74dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc9c49341f9728c31fe248c5fbba32d2e81a092b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c23d1d4f8efefb72258e9cedce29de10d057f8ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/daeac89cdb03d30028186f5ff7dc26ec8fa843e7