NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELRTDEVEL-2703590
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed14 Sept 2020

Introduced: 14 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-14356  (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-devel package and not the kernel-rt-devel package as distributed by SLES.

A flaw null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel cgroupv2 subsystem in versions before 5.7.10 was found in the way when reboot the system. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

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