NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libperf-devel (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBPERFDEVEL-14204016
- published6 Dec 2025
- disclosed4 Dec 2025
Introduced: 4 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-40240 (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:
sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing
chunk->skb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it's supposed to be NULL only.
chunk->skb can only be NULL if chunk->head_skb is not. Check for frag_list instead and do it just before replacing chunk->skb. We're sure that otherwise chunk->skb is non-NULL because of outer if() condition.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40240
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03e80a4b04ef1fb2c61dd63216ab8d3a5dcb196f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08165c296597075763130919f2aae59b5822f016
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/441f0647f7673e0e64d4910ef61a5fb8f16bfb82
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f6da435fb5d8a21cbf8cae5ca5a2ba0e1012b71
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61cda2777b07d27459f5cac5a047c3edf9c8a1a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a832b0f99be19df608cb75c023f8027b1789bd1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89b465b54227c245ddc7cc9ed822231af21123ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb9055ba30306ede4ad920002233d0659982f1cb