NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCE-10355355
  • published14 Jun 2025
  • disclosed13 Jun 2025

Introduced: 13 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-21980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

sched: address a potential NULL pointer dereference in the GRED scheduler.

If kzalloc in gred_init returns a NULL pointer, the code follows the error handling path, invoking gred_destroy. This, in turn, calls gred_offload, where memset could receive a NULL pointer as input, potentially leading to a kernel crash.

When table->opt is NULL in gred_init(), gred_change_table_def() is not called yet, so it is not necessary to call ->ndo_setup_tc() in gred_offload().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1