NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel-matched  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRT64KDEBUGDEVELMATCHED-14658300
  • published25 Dec 2025
  • disclosed24 Dec 2025

Introduced: 24 Dec 2025

CVE-2023-54085  (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-rt-64k-debug-devel-matched package and not the kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel-matched package as distributed by RHEL.

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

mptcp: fix NULL pointer dereference on fastopen early fallback

In case of early fallback to TCP, subflow_syn_recv_sock() deletes the subflow context before returning the newly allocated sock to the caller.

The fastopen path does not cope with the above unconditionally dereferencing the subflow context.