NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-uki-virt-addons  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELUKIVIRTADDONS-8665252
  • published29 Jan 2025
  • disclosed21 May 2024

Introduced: 21 May 2024

CVE-2021-47257  (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-uki-virt-addons package and not the kernel-uki-virt-addons package as distributed by RHEL.

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

net: ieee802154: fix null deref in parse dev addr

Fix a logic error that could result in a null deref if the user sets the mode incorrectly for the given addr type.