NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt_debug-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELRTDEBUGDEVEL-2740448
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2020

Introduced: 9 Mar 2020

CVE-2019-20054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt_debug-devel package and not the kernel-rt_debug-devel package as distributed by SLES.

In the Linux kernel before 5.0.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links, aka CID-23da9588037e.

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