NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCE-10744975
  • published15 Jul 2025
  • disclosed14 Jul 2025

Introduced: 14 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-21940  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1 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:

drm/amdkfd: Fix NULL Pointer Dereference in KFD queue

Through KFD IOCTL Fuzzing we encountered a NULL pointer derefrence when calling kfd_queue_acquire_buffers.

(cherry picked from commit 049e5bf3c8406f87c3d8e1958e0a16804fa1d530)

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1