NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libperf-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBPERFDEVEL-12739310
  • published16 Sept 2025
  • disclosed15 Sept 2025

Introduced: 15 Sep 2025

CVE-2023-53150  (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 libperf-devel package and not the libperf-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Pointer may be dereferenced

Klocwork tool reported pointer 'rport' returned from call to function fc_bsg_to_rport() may be NULL and will be dereferenced.

Add a fix to validate rport before dereferencing.