NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools-libs (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-9433917
published15 Mar 2025
disclosed24 Jan 2022

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Introduced: 24 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-0617 (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-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel UDF file system functionality was found in the way user triggers udf_file_write_iter function for the malicious UDF image. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system. Actual from Linux kernel 4.2-rc1 till 5.17-rc2.