NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELRTDEBUGKVM-7779836
  • published22 Aug 2024
  • disclosed26 Feb 2024

Introduced: 26 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-52471  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-rt-debug-kvm to version 0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:5102.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c

devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure.

CVSS Scores

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