REDHAT-BUG-2418832: Medium severity linux/kernel vulnerability

Published Dec 4, 2025
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Updated

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

sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing

chunk->skb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it's supposed to be NULL only.

chunk->skb can only be NULL if chunk->headskb is not. Check for fraglist instead and do it just before replacing chunk->skb. We're sure that otherwise chunk->skb is non-NULL because of outer if() condition.

Affected Software

1 affected component
linux/kernel

Event History

Dec 4, 2025
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·04:03 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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