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Denial of Service

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Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

How It Works

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions. Attackers exploit asymmetry: minimal attacker effort produces disproportionate resource consumption on the target. Application-level attacks use specially crafted inputs that trigger expensive operations—a regex engine processing malicious patterns can backtrack exponentially, or XML parsers recursively expand entities until memory exhausts. Network-level attacks flood targets with connection requests or amplify traffic through reflection, but application vulnerabilities often provide the most efficient attack surface.

The attack typically begins with reconnaissance to identify resource-intensive operations or unprotected endpoints. For algorithmic complexity attacks, adversaries craft inputs hitting worst-case performance—hash collision inputs filling hash tables with collisions, deeply nested JSON triggering recursive parsing, or pathological regex patterns like (a+)+b against strings of repeated 'a' characters. Resource exhaustion attacks open thousands of connections, upload massive files to unbounded storage, or trigger memory leaks through repeated operations. Crash-based attacks target error handling gaps: null pointer dereferences, unhandled exceptions in parsers, or assertion failures that terminate processes.

Impact

  • Service unavailability preventing legitimate users from accessing applications during attack duration
  • Revenue loss from downtime in e-commerce, SaaS platforms, or transaction processing systems
  • Cascading failures as resource exhaustion spreads to dependent services or database connections pool out
  • SLA violations triggering financial penalties and damaging customer trust
  • Security team distraction providing cover for data exfiltration or intrusion attempts running concurrently

Real-World Examples

CVE-2018-1000544 in Ruby's WEBrick server allowed ReDoS through malicious HTTP headers containing specially crafted patterns that caused the regex engine to backtrack exponentially, freezing request processing threads. A single attacker could saturate all available workers.

Cloudflare experienced a global outage in 2019 when a single WAF rule containing an unoptimized regex hit pathological cases on legitimate traffic spikes. The .*(?:.*=.*)* pattern exhibited catastrophic backtracking, consuming CPU cycles across their edge network until the rule was disabled.

CVE-2013-1664 demonstrated XML bomb vulnerabilities in Python's XML libraries. Attackers uploaded XML documents with nested entity definitions-each entity expanding to ten copies of the previous level. A 1KB upload could expand to gigabytes in memory during parsing, crashing applications instantly.

Mitigation

  • Strict input validation enforcing size limits, complexity bounds, and nesting depth restrictions before processing
  • Request rate limiting per IP address, API key, or user session with exponential backoff
  • Timeout enforcement terminating operations exceeding reasonable execution windows (typically 1-5 seconds)
  • Resource quotas limiting memory allocation, CPU time, and connection counts per request or tenant
  • Regex complexity analysis using linear-time algorithms or sanitizing patterns to eliminate backtracking
  • Circuit breakers automatically rejecting requests when error rates or latency thresholds indicate degradation
  • Load balancing and autoscaling distributing traffic across instances with automatic capacity expansion

Recent CVEs (36498)

EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM POC This Month

Out-of-bounds read in RTKLIB through 2.4.3 exposes users to denial of service and potential memory disclosure when processing maliciously crafted RINEX observation files. The getcodepri function fails to validate unrecognized observation codes, performing negative array indexing into the codepris table - producing reliable crashes and leaking adjacent global data segments. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists via the upstream GitHub issue tracker; this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, and no EPSS data was provided in available intelligence.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM POC This Month

Off-by-one out-of-bounds read in RTKLIB's decode_ssr3 function (src/rtcm3.c:1446) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a global buffer overflow by sending crafted RTCM3 SSR correction messages with attacker-controlled signal mode fields over NTRIP or serial connections. All RTKLIB versions through 2.4.3 are affected, with the primary impact being denial of service or crash of GNSS rovers and CORS server deployments. A publicly available exploit exists per VulnCheck intelligence, though this vulnerability is not confirmed in CISA KEV at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Rtklib
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Out-of-bounds write in RTKLIB's decode_type1033 function affects all versions through 2.4.3, where unclamped length counters allow up to a 191-byte overflow into fixed 64-byte descriptor fields when parsing an RTCM3 type-1033 message. An attacker who controls an NTRIP or serial RTCM3 correction stream can deliver a CRC-valid crafted message to corrupt adjacent rtcm_t members, potentially achieving arbitrary code execution or denial of service. Publicly available exploit code exists (reported by VulnCheck), though there is no public exploit identified as actively exploited in CISA KEV.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Authenticated session hijacking via IDOR in Kanboard through 1.2.52 allows any low-privilege user to mass-invalidate the persistent 'Remember Me' sessions of arbitrary users, including administrators, by enumerating sequential integer session IDs against the unguarded `removeSession` endpoint. The root-cause fix - scoping `RememberMeSessionModel::remove()` to the requesting user's own `user_id` - is confirmed in commit 928c68a via PR #5831. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists on GitHub (issue #5829); this vulnerability is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog, though the trivially low exploitation barrier warrants prompt patching.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Kanboard
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH POC This Week

Denial of service in libais through version 0.15 lets remote unauthenticated attackers crash AIS-processing services and vessel systems by sending malformed AIVDM sentences. The VdmStream::AddLine routine treats an unchecked sentinel value as a vector index when a sentence carries an empty or out-of-range sequential message ID, producing an out-of-bounds vector access (CWE-129) and potential memory corruption. Publicly available exploit code exists and the issue was reported by VulnCheck, though it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Denial Of Service Libais
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.4
HIGH Act Now

Arbitrary code execution in AzeoTech DAQFactory (versions 21.1 and prior) arises from a use-after-free flaw triggered when the application parses a maliciously crafted .ctl project/control file. An attacker who can convince an operator to open a booby-trapped .ctl file can corrupt memory and run code in the context of the DAQFactory process on the engineering or HMI workstation. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis and the CVE is not in CISA KEV, but it carries a high CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.4 driven by full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Decompression bomb (zip bomb) in Trivy's Helm chart scanner causes denial of service via OOM kill when processing a crafted .tgz archive. Affected versions prior to 0.71.0 use io.ReadAll without any size cap on tar entries inside Helm chart archives, allowing a small compressed file to expand to gigabytes in memory. An attacker who can place a malicious archive in any path that Trivy is directed to scan can reliably crash the Trivy process. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Trivy Suse
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Remote denial of service in the Zephyr RTOS IPv6 network stack lets unauthenticated attackers permanently halt packet reception by sending a small number of crafted fragmented IPv6 packets. Each malicious fragment leaks its RX network buffer (CWE-772) instead of returning it to the memory slab, so a handful of packets exhausts the fixed RX buffer pool and the device stops receiving all traffic until reboot. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; the CVSS 7.5 (A:H only) reflects high availability impact with no confidentiality or integrity exposure.

Denial Of Service Zephyr
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unrestricted file upload to the POST /api/convos/import endpoint in LibreChat prior to 0.8.4-rc1 allows any authenticated user to exhaust server disk space and memory, causing a denial of service. The root cause is an incomplete remediation of CVE-2024-11171: while file size limits were added to the shared multer factory, the import endpoint's independent multer instance was never updated, and the application-level fallback guard (CONVERSATION_IMPORT_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES) is commented out in .env.example by default. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the low exploitation complexity for any authenticated user makes this a meaningful operational risk for public-facing or open-registration deployments.

Denial Of Service File Upload Librechat
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Rate limiter bypass in LibreChat prior to 0.8.4-rc1 allows any authenticated user to exhaust server resources via the POST /api/convos/duplicate endpoint, which performs identical expensive database operations as /api/convos/fork but was inadvertently omitted from the CVE-2025-7105 remediation scope. Operators who applied the prior fix may believe resource exhaustion was fully mitigated - they remain exposed through this overlooked parallel endpoint. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, but the low exploitation complexity and bypass nature make this operationally significant for multi-tenant or publicly accessible LibreChat deployments.

Denial Of Service Librechat
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Denial-of-service in Schneider Electric PowerLogic P7 power monitoring devices allows an authenticated attacker to crash a network-exposed service by sending a specially crafted request that triggers a reachable assertion (CWE-617), fully disrupting availability. The CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9 reflects the high-privilege prerequisite (PR:H) that constrains exploitation to actors with administrative credentials, while the availability impact is rated high (VA:H) with no confidentiality or integrity consequences. No public exploit code and no active exploitation via CISA KEV have been identified at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Powerlogic P7
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH Act Now

Denial-of-service in Schneider Electric PowerLogic P7 power metering devices allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to crash the device's HMI and configuration functionality by sending malformed requests to exposed network interfaces. The flaw stems from a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) that renders local management and configuration unavailable until recovery. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; the CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.7 reflects a high availability impact with no confidentiality or integrity exposure.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Powerlogic P7
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.7
LOW PATCH Monitor

Null pointer dereference in Nokogiri prior to 1.19.4 crashes the Ruby process when application code incorrectly calls `.allocate` directly on a native-backed class inheriting from `Nokogiri::XML::Node` and then invokes methods on the resulting uninitialized object. Only CRuby is affected - JRuby is explicitly not vulnerable. No public exploit has been identified; the CVSS 4.0 base score of 1.7 with E:U accurately reflects that this defect requires a developer programming error rather than any crafted external input, placing it firmly in the low-priority category.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Nokogiri
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Improper bounds validation in Silicon Labs EmberZNet SDK versions 9.0.2 and earlier exposes Zigbee-connected devices to crashes and dynamic memory leakage via network-reachable input. Authenticated network attackers can trigger the flaw with low complexity, resulting in denial-of-service conditions or unintended disclosure of heap contents. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and a vendor patch is available via the SISDK GitHub release repository.

Denial Of Service Sisdk
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in PowerDNS dnsdist's DNS over HTTP/3 (DoH3) handler allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust server memory by opening high volumes of concurrent QUIC streams carrying crafted queries. Each crafted query triggers an exception that defers buffer deallocation until QUIC connection teardown rather than releasing memory promptly, enabling cumulative memory exhaustion across simultaneous streams. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and the attack surface is limited to instances with DoH3 explicitly enabled.

Denial Of Service Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

TCP connection resource leak in PowerDNS dnsdist allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust backend TCP connection capacity by sending IXFR (Incremental Zone Transfer) queries. Affected dnsdist instances fail to promptly release outgoing TCP connections to backends after IXFR processing, leaving them open until OS-level timeout; under sustained query volume this can exhaust the backend's concurrent connection limit or the dnsdist process's file descriptor table. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and no CISA KEV listing exists, but the AV:N/AC:L/PR:N attack surface makes the trigger trivially automatable from the internet.

Denial Of Service Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

PowerDNS Recursor crashes when processing a malformed SOA record within a catalog zone, resulting in a denial of service for all DNS resolution handled by the affected instance. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) confirms network-reachable unauthenticated exploitation, but high attack complexity reflects the non-default catalog zone configuration required. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Denial Of Service Recursor Suse
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

PowerDNS Recursor crashes when a malicious authoritative DNS server serves a crafted zone via the ZoneToCache function, exploiting insufficient input validation to cause a denial of service. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) confirms this is a remotely triggerable availability-only impact, though high attack complexity reflects the prerequisite of controlling or compromising an authoritative name server in the resolution path. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and no KEV listing exists, but the impact on DNS infrastructure availability makes this a meaningful operational risk for affected deployments.

Denial Of Service Recursor Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

PowerDNS Authoritative Server's optional internal web server accepts crafted HTTP requests that trigger unbounded memory allocation, exhausting process memory and causing a denial of service against the DNS service. Exploitation requires low-privilege authentication (PR:L per CVSS vector) and the internal web server must be explicitly enabled - it is disabled by default, sharply limiting the real-world attack surface. No public exploit code has been identified and this vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Denial Of Service Authoritative Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Sleep-inside-lock in the Linux kernel's SMC networking subsystem (`__smc_setsockopt()`) allows a local low-privilege user to hold the socket lock indefinitely, exhausting kernel worker threads and triggering the hung task watchdog - producing a local denial of service. Affected systems must have the `net/smc` module loaded and a user-space mechanism (userfaultfd or FUSE) available to stall the in-kernel copy operation. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.18% (8th percentile) reflects very low mass-exploitation probability; however, the technique is well-understood in kernel security research.

Linux Denial Of Service
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation or kernel memory corruption in the Linux kernel's OP-TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) driver arises from a use-after-free in the supplicant request path on ARM TrustZone systems. After commit 70b0d6b0a199 made the client wait killable, a client task can exit and kfree() its request while its ID still lives in supp->idr, so a later supplicant lookup dereferences freed memory. CVSS 7.8 (local, low privilege) with EPSS at 0.17% (7th percentile); no public exploit identified at time of analysis and not listed in CISA KEV.

Linux Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the ksmbd (in-kernel SMB server) subsystem of the Linux kernel causes a remotely triggerable kernel oops, resulting in denial of service. The race condition in smb2_oplock_break_noti() and smb2_lease_break_noti() allows an authenticated SMB client to crash the kernel by racing an SMB2 LOGOFF against an oplock/lease break notification - setting opinfo->conn to NULL in the window after ci->m_lock is dropped, then dereferencing it in ksmbd_conn_r_count_inc(). No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is very low at 0.16% (6th percentile), and CISA KEV listing is absent.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Kernel crash in Linux cfg80211 WiFi subsystem occurs when EHT (Wi-Fi 7 / 802.11be) capability elements are present without matching EHT operation elements, triggering a null pointer dereference in mac80211 and causing a denial of service. Systems running affected kernel versions with Wi-Fi 7 hardware are at risk of a local-privilege kernel panic with no confidentiality or integrity impact. EPSS is extremely low at 0.15% (5th percentile) and no public exploit has been identified; this is not listed in CISA KEV.

Linux Denial Of Service
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Kernel panic (denial of service) in the Linux kernel ALSA PCM subsystem occurs when snd_pcm_drain() is called on linked (grouped) audio streams that are concurrently unlinked, corrupting wait queue lists and ultimately dereferencing a NULL function pointer. The flaw stems from init_waitqueue_entry/add_wait_queue not clearing list pointers combined with a conditional remove_wait_queue that is skipped after a concurrent UNLINK, leaving an orphaned wait entry that gets added to two queues at once. It is a local-privilege issue requiring access to ALSA PCM devices; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the EPSS score is very low (0.18%).

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's Marvell EBU GPIO driver (gpio/mvebu) causes a kernel oops and system crash during suspend/resume operations on Marvell Armada ARM platforms. The flaw affects all stable kernel branches from 4.12 onward where mvebu_pwm_suspend() and mvebu_pwm_resume() are unconditionally invoked for every GPIO bank, including those where mvchip->mvpwm is NULL due to absent PWM hardware. A local authenticated user with sufficient privileges to trigger system suspend can crash the kernel with no recovery, resulting in full availability loss. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.18% (7th percentile), reflecting a niche hardware dependency that sharply limits real-world exposure.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Resource leak and use-after-free in the Linux kernel's gpio-rockchip driver can crash the kernel on systems using Rockchip GPIO hardware. The driver's remove path fails to call irq_domain_remove_generic_chips(), leaving allocated generic chip structures unreleased and dangling on the global gc_list. After driver unbind or module removal, IRQ subsystem suspend, resume, or shutdown callbacks may subsequently dereference the freed memory, producing a use-after-free condition and kernel panic. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at the 7th percentile, indicating very low real-world exploitation probability; however, the availability of upstream fix commits makes patching straightforward.

Linux Denial Of Service
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel netfilter bridge redirect target crashes the kernel when a bridge port is removed or reassigned between an initial NFQUEUE hook invocation and packet reinject. The affected function ebt_redirect_tg() in the ebtables bridge filtering subsystem calls br_port_get_rcu() without guarding against a NULL return, and the additional complexity noted in the fix is that a mere NULL check would still be insufficient - userspace can move the device into a macvlan while the packet is queued, requiring the packet to be dropped entirely. This flaw has existed since commit f350a0a87374418635689471606454abc7beaa3a (kernel 2.6.36), making it a long-standing latent bug. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS at 0.18% (7th percentile) signals negligible automated exploitation risk.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's IPv6 address configuration subsystem crashes the kernel when cleanup_prefix_route() receives the fib6_null_entry sentinel from addrconf_get_prefix_route() and attempts to access its NULL fib6_table pointer without validation. An authenticated local user holding CAP_NET_ADMIN can trigger this by sending a crafted IPv6 DELADDR netlink message, causing a general protection fault and system-wide denial of service. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists; EPSS is 0.17% (6th percentile), consistent with a privilege-gated local DoS affecting an extremely widely deployed target.

Linux Canonical Denial Of Service +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's Intel Stratix10 RSU (Remote System Update) firmware driver causes a kernel panic when SMC call timeouts occur during probe initialization. Affected kernels through 7.1-rc7 and 7.0.13 expose a race condition where timeout-driven error paths in stratix10_rsu_probe() free the service channel - setting chan->scl to NULL - but fail to return early, allowing subsequent service kthreads to dereference the now-NULL pointer in their receive callbacks. The vulnerability is a local denial-of-service with no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS places exploitation probability at only 0.15%.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The vsock/VMCI transport in the Linux kernel silently leaks the accept queue counter (sk_ack_backlog) on every failed vsock connection handshake, eventually causing a permanent denial of service on any vsock listener. Repeated handshake failures caused by malformed packets, queue pair allocation failures, or event subscription failures each increment sk_ack_backlog without a corresponding decrement; once the counter reaches sk_max_ack_backlog, the listener rejects all subsequent connections with -ECONNREFUSED until the owning process is restarted. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS of 0.18% at the 8th percentile reflects low automated exploitation probability, consistent with the VMware-specific exposure requirement.

Linux Denial Of Service
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel bnxt_en Broadcom NetXtreme Ethernet driver crashes the kernel when PCIe error recovery fires against a closed NIC, causing a denial of service. Affected kernel versions span from 4.17 through multiple LTS and mainline branches up to 7.1-rc4, with patches released across all active stable series. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at 0.17% (7th percentile), marking this as a reliability and stability concern rather than an actively targeted attack vector.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Remote denial of service in the Linux kernel's iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA) target driver (IB/isert) allows an unauthenticated attacker on the RDMA fabric to crash a storage target node by sending an undersized iSCSI login PDU. The isert_login_recv_done() handler subtracts the 76-byte ISER_HEADERS_LEN from the received byte count without a lower bound, producing a negative signed login_req_len that is later sign-extended into a multi-gigabyte memcpy() length, causing a faulting out-of-bounds copy. Because the login phase precedes iSCSI authentication, no credentials are required; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS exploitation probability is low (0.21%).

Linux Denial Of Service
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's futex PI requeue path allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel. Triggered via FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI when a non-top waiter already owns the target PI futex, the deadlock detection path returns -EDEADLK before initializing waiter->task, which remove_waiter() then dereferences unconditionally. Impact is a kernel panic (system-wide denial of service). No public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is at the 7th percentile, but the attack surface is any unprivileged local process on an affected kernel version.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in the Linux kernel's iomap buffered I/O layer allows a NULL pointer dereference (kernel oops/panic) when a buffered read fails on a folio split across multiple read completions. Because iomap_finish_folio_read() decremented read_bytes_pending before calling fserror_report_io(), a concurrent final read completion plus a truncate could detach the folio (folio->mapping = NULL) before the error path dereferenced it. CVSS 7.5 reflects availability-only impact (A:H); EPSS is low (0.18%, 8th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's real-time mutex (rtmutex) subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel via FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI, causing a denial of service. Affected stable branches span Linux 6.1 through 7.1-rc5; vendor patches are available via kernel.org stable commits. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS is 0.17% (7th percentile), indicating negligible observed exploitation activity.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's fastrpc misc driver crashes the kernel when a Qualcomm DSP sends a glink message before the fastrpc_rpmsg_probe() initialization routine completes. Systems using the Qualcomm FastRPC subsystem - primarily Android and embedded Qualcomm SoC platforms running Linux 5.1 through unpatched 6.x/7.x stable branches - are vulnerable to a local denial-of-service (kernel panic) at boot. No public exploit exists and EPSS is 0.17% (6th percentile), consistent with a hardware-timing race condition requiring specific Qualcomm DSP hardware rather than generic remote exploitation.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's dw_mmc-rockchip MMC driver triggers kernel panics on systems running legacy Rockchip SoCs (rk2928, rk3066, rk3188) when the MMC subsystem initializes. Commit ff6f0286c896 introduced a mandatory private-data access path that was never populated for these old controllers - which historically had no UHS support and no parse_dt callback - causing a reproducible kernel crash on affected hardware. No active exploitation is confirmed (absent from CISA KEV), and the EPSS score of 0.17% (6th percentile) reflects negligible real-world exploitation probability; the primary risk is an accidental reliability failure on embedded systems running these legacy SoCs.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's drm/amdkfd subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to trigger a kernel panic by invoking the kfd_ioctl_set_debug_trap() ioctl with a non-zero num_queues value and a NULL queue_array_ptr. The root flaw is that get_queue_ids() returns NULL in this case rather than ERR_PTR(-EINVAL), and both callers check only IS_ERR() - since IS_ERR(NULL) evaluates false, execution proceeds to q_array_invalidate(), which immediately dereferences the NULL pointer while iterating, crashing the kernel. No public exploit has been identified and the EPSS score of 0.17% (6th percentile) confirms low observed exploitation probability, though the trigger path is mechanically simple for any user with /dev/kfd access.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference and buffer over-read in the Linux kernel's AMD display driver (drm/amd/display) can be triggered by a local user writing to the sdp_message debugfs node, causing a kernel panic and denial of service. The dp_sdp_message_debugfs_write() function fails to check whether connector->base.state->crtc is NULL - a valid transient state after GPU hotplug before an atomic commit - and unconditionally passes 36 bytes to copy_from_user() regardless of the caller-provided size, enabling a second over-read path. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists; EPSS is 0.18% (7th percentile), consistent with a localized, hardware-dependent DoS.

Linux Amd Denial Of Service +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote denial-of-service in NLnet Labs NSD (authoritative DNS name server) version 4.13.0 and later allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash the server process by exploiting a heap use-after-free in the TLS error-logging path. By sending a DNS query over a DNS-over-TLS (DoT) connection and closing the socket before reading the response, an attacker triggers the freed-memory access trivially; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not in CISA KEV. The CVSS 4.0 score of 8.7 reflects high availability impact with no confidentiality or integrity exposure.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap overflow in NLnet Labs NSD allows a malicious or compromised zone primary to corrupt memory on a secondary (slave) NSD instance by sending an AXFR transfer containing a crafted SVCB resource record. An rdata size of 65512 causes a uint16_t length variable used for RR allocation to wrap (total size exceeds 65535), producing an undersized buffer and a controlled out-of-bounds write of up to 65509 bytes - an RCE-class primitive (CWE-190 integer overflow leading to heap overflow). No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the controlled write and remote network vector (CVSS 4.0 base 8.7) make this a high-priority patch for any operator running NSD as a secondary.

Integer Overflow Denial Of Service Nsd +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Week

Denial of service in the shell-quote Node.js library (versions prior to 1.8.5) lets remote attackers stall the single-threaded event loop by passing an attacker-controlled string into any code path that calls parse(). The flaw is purely algorithmic - parse() builds its token list with Array.prototype.concat as a reduce accumulator, giving O(n^2) behavior so even a small payload of plain space-separated words causes disproportionate CPU consumption. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no KEV listing; impact is to availability only with no code execution or data disclosure despite the misleading 'RCE' source tag.

Node.js Denial Of Service RCE +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

NULL pointer dereference in GPAC MP4Box's filter pipeline traversal function crashes the application when processing a specially crafted media file. Affected versions prior to 26.02.0 fail to validate the `pidi->pid` pointer before dereferencing it inside `gf_filter_in_parent_chain` (filter_pid.c:2176), enabling a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service by supplying a malicious input file. No public exploit identification as KEV, but a publicly available proof-of-concept exists on GitHub; EPSS of 0.17% (6th percentile) reflects low observed exploitation probability consistent with the local-only, user-interaction-required attack vector.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Gpac
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM POC This Month

Use-after-free in MP4Box's filter pipeline (gf_filter_pid_get_packet, filter_core/filter_pid.c) crashes the application when processing a crafted media file, resulting in Denial of Service. Affected versions are all GPAC/MP4Box releases prior to 26.02.0. A publicly available proof-of-concept exploit exists, though exploitation requires local access and user interaction - the CVSS vector (AV:L/UI:R) and low EPSS score of 0.17% indicate limited real-world automated exploitation risk. No confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV not listed).

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

Denial of service in GPAC's MP4Box multimedia tool (versions before 26.02.0) arises from a use-after-free in the gf_sei_load_from_state_internal function of the SEI loader filter (src/filters/sei_load.c). Processing a maliciously crafted MPEG-2 Transport Stream file causes the parser to dereference a dangling pointer, crashing the application. Publicly available exploit code (a PoC test case and write-up) exists, though the issue is not listed in CISA KEV and carries a low EPSS exploitation probability (0.17%, 6th percentile).

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Denial of service in relibc (the Redox OS C standard library implementation, commit 61f42d) lets attackers crash a process by supplying a crafted string that reaches a panicking `unwrap()` inside the `__assert_fail` function in /assert/mod.rs. Any program linked against the affected relibc that routes attacker-influenced data through an assertion failure path can be forced to abort. Publicly available exploit code exists, but the issue is not listed in CISA KEV and EPSS is low (0.17%, 6th percentile), indicating no observed widespread exploitation.

Denial Of Service N A
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM POC This Month

Use-after-free in MP4Box's filter pipeline core (gf_filter_pid_inst_swap in filter_pid.c) allows local attackers to crash the application - and potentially achieve memory corruption beyond DoS - by supplying a crafted media file. Publicly available exploit code exists for this vulnerability, hosted on GitHub in a dedicated proof-of-concept repository. The EPSS score is low (0.17%, 6th percentile) with no CISA KEV listing, suggesting the public POC is research-grade rather than part of active exploitation campaigns, but the barrier to triggering a crash is low for any attacker with file delivery capability.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue in the pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared() function of relibc commit 61f42d allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted input.

Denial Of Service N A
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Infinite-loop denial of service in the Zephyr RTOS PL011 UART driver (v4.1.0-v4.4.0) permanently stalls any thread that calls uart_irq_tx_enable() - including the Bluetooth HCI H4 send path - when CTS hardware flow control is enabled and the wired peer withholds CTS during transmission. The root cause is a software workaround loop (CWE-835) that compensates for the PL011 controller's level-transition TX interrupt behavior but never exits when pl011_fifo_fill() returns 0 due to a blocked CTS line. No public exploit has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; exploitation requires physical or hardware-adjacent control of the UART CTS pin, materially constraining real-world risk.

Denial Of Service Zephyr
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in Sentry's self-hosted/SaaS event ingestion pipeline (versions 24.4.0 through 26.5.1) lets remote actors who can submit events stall worker CPU via a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). A loosely-written hostname-detection regex in the grouping parameterization stage (parameterization.py) backtracks catastrophically on crafted attacker-controlled event fields, exhausting CPU and degrading or halting event processing. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not in CISA KEV, but the fix (26.5.2) and the triggering regex are publicly disclosed in the GitHub advisory and PR #116587, lowering the bar to reproduce.

Denial Of Service Sentry
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Persistent denial of service in the Tiptap for PHP library before 2.1.1 lets authenticated users crash the server-side rendering pipeline by submitting Tiptap JSON whose attrs.href is an array rather than a string. The malformed value reaches preg_match() inside Link::isAllowedUri() and triggers an unhandled TypeError; because the bad record is stored, every later attempt to render that content fails for all viewers until the database row is manually fixed. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; EPSS data was not provided.

Denial Of Service PHP Tiptap Php
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
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Authentication bypass in Rocket.Chat's SAML service provider lets attackers log in as arbitrary users when SAML is enabled but the IdP certificate field is left at its empty shipped default, which causes signature validation to be silently skipped. All versions prior to 8.5.0, 8.4.1, 8.3.3, 8.2.3, 8.1.4, 8.0.5, 7.13.7, and 7.10.11 are affected, and the CVSS 4.0 base score is 9.3 (Critical). There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV, but the fail-open behavior is reachable in a near-default configuration, making it a high-priority fix.

Jwt Attack Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Uncontrolled resource consumption in the AutoGPT platform (versions before 0.6.52) lets an authenticated user crash the server through the Fill Text Template block. The block's Jinja2 SandboxedEnvironment blocks dangerous attribute access but enforces no CPU, memory, or execution-time limits, so a crafted expression can exhaust server resources and hang or crash the host. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV, but the bug is straightforward to trigger and the vendor has shipped a fix in 0.6.52.

Python Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Arbitrary code execution within the renderer sandbox affects Google Chrome on Android before 149.0.7827.197 via a use-after-free defect in the WebView component, reachable when a victim renders a crafted HTML page. The flaw lets an attacker corrupt freed memory in the rendering process to gain code execution confined to the sandbox; CVSS is 7.8 (High) and Chromium rates it High severity. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and CISA SSVC marks exploitation status as none, but a vendor patch is already available.

Memory Corruption Google Denial Of Service +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine (versions prior to 149.0.7827.197) allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code within the renderer sandbox by luring a victim to a crafted HTML page. The flaw is a use-after-free (CWE-416) rated High by Chromium with a CVSS of 8.8; it requires user interaction (visiting a malicious page) but no authentication. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, with the CISA SSVC framework recording exploitation status as none.

Memory Corruption Google Denial Of Service +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Google Chrome for macOS prior to 149.0.7827.197 stems from a use-after-free in the browser's Bluetooth subsystem, letting a malicious Bluetooth peripheral corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code in the browser process. The flaw is rated High severity by Chromium with a CVSS 8.8, requires user interaction (UI:R) but no privileges, and currently has no public exploit identified at time of analysis; CISA SSVC marks exploitation status as none.

Memory Corruption Google Denial Of Service +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine (versions prior to 149.0.7827.197) allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code within the renderer sandbox when a victim visits a crafted HTML page. The flaw is a use-after-free (CWE-416) rated High by Chromium with a CVSS 8.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, though Chrome browser bugs of this class are historically high-value targets. Exploitation requires user interaction (loading a malicious page) but no authentication.

Memory Corruption Google Denial Of Service +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap corruption in Google Chrome's Web Authentication (WebAuthn) component affects all desktop builds prior to 149.0.7827.197, where a use-after-free (CWE-416) can be triggered by a malicious browser extension. An attacker who first convinces a victim to install a crafted extension can reach the freed object and potentially achieve code execution. Rated High by Chromium with a CVSS 7.5; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC marks exploitation as none.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Renderer-side heap corruption in Google Chrome's FileSystem component (versions prior to 149.0.7827.197) lets a remote attacker who lures a victim to a crafted HTML page trigger a use-after-free, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution within the renderer. Rated High severity by Chromium with a CVSS of 8.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and CISA's SSVC framework currently records exploitation status as 'none'. EPSS data was not provided, but the user-interaction requirement (visiting a page) is the only meaningful barrier, making this a routine but real browser-patch priority.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap corruption via use-after-free in Google Chrome's Digital Credentials component on macOS allows a remote attacker to potentially execute code by luring a victim to a crafted HTML page, affecting Chrome builds prior to 149.0.7827.197. The flaw was reported internally by Google's Chrome team, and per CISA's SSVC framework exploitation is currently 'none', so this is no public exploit identified at time of analysis despite a high (8.8) CVSS score requiring user interaction. EPSS data was not provided, but the absence of KEV listing and no observed exploitation point to risk driven by Chrome's massive install base rather than confirmed in-the-wild abuse.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.197 stems from a use-after-free condition in the Autofill component, letting a remote attacker run arbitrary code in the renderer when a victim opens a malicious web page. Chromium rates the flaw Critical and CVSS 8.8 reflects high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, tempered by the requirement that the user load attacker-controlled content. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and SSVC records exploitation status as none, but the 'total' technical impact makes prompt patching important.

Memory Corruption Google Microsoft +4
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on Android before 149.0.7827.197 stems from a use-after-free in the WebGL graphics subsystem, letting a remote attacker who lures a victim to a crafted HTML page potentially break out of the renderer sandbox. Rated Critical by Chromium with a CVSS 9.6 reflecting scope change and total compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not on CISA KEV, though Google has shipped a fix.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome for Android before 149.0.7827.197 stems from a use-after-free in the WebGL graphics component, letting a remote attacker who lures a victim to a crafted HTML page break out of the renderer sandbox. Rated Critical by Chromium and carrying a CVSS 9.6 with scope change, the flaw threatens full compromise of the browser process boundary on affected Android devices. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and CISA SSVC marks exploitation status as none.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Use After Free +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote denial-of-service in the TP-Link Tapo C200 v3 home security camera allows an unauthenticated attacker on the adjacent network to crash or destabilize the device by sending malformed IPv4 fragmented packets. Exploitation drives excessive resource consumption (CWE-770) and renders the camera unresponsive, causing intermittent loss of live video monitoring and recording. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; TP-Link, who reported it, has released a firmware fix.

Denial Of Service Tapo C200 V3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Uncontrolled CPU consumption in Mistune, a Python Markdown parser, allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause denial of service against any application that renders untrusted Markdown through versions prior to 3.3.0. The flaw lives in parse_link_text, which runs a regex search inside a loop and re-scans the remaining input each iteration, yielding roughly O(n²) behavior; a tiny payload of many consecutive '[' characters can pin a CPU core. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV, but the trigger is trivial to construct and the GitHub Security Advisory documents the root cause precisely.

Python Denial Of Service Mistune
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote denial of service in curl and libcurl (versions 8.18.0 through 8.20.0) lets a malicious or compromised HTTP/3 server indefinitely stall a connecting client. The flaw lives in curl's QUIC UDP receive path, where zero-length UDP datagrams are discarded before they are counted against the per-call packet budget, so a peer that streams a continuous flood of empty datagrams keeps the receive loop spinning without ever making progress. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS risk is low (0.28%, 20th percentile), and impact is availability-only (no data compromise).

Denial Of Service Curl Red Hat
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in curl 8.16.0 through 8.20.0 lets a malicious WebSocket server exhaust all client memory by flooding it with rapid, sequential PING frames. Because curl auto-responds to PINGs by default and imposes no upper bound on memory buffered for unacknowledged frames, the queue of pending PONG responses grows unbounded until the process is OOM-killed. EPSS is low (0.21%, 11th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, consistent with an availability-only issue affecting the subset of deployments that actually use curl's WebSocket support.

Denial Of Service Curl Red Hat
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EPSS 0%
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: test_run: Fix the null pointer dereference issue in bpf_lwt_xmit_push_encap The bpf_lwt_xmit_push_encap helper needs to access skb_dst(skb)->dev to calculate the needed headroom: err = skb_cow_head(skb, len + LL_RESERVED_SPACE(skb_dst(skb)->dev)); But skb->_skb_refdst may not be initialized when the skb is set up by bpf_prog_test_run_skb function. Executing bpf_lwt_push_ip_encap function in this scenario will trigger null pointer dereference, causing a kernel crash as Yinhao reported: [ 105.186365] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 105.186382] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 105.186388] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 105.186393] PGD 121d3d067 P4D 121d3d067 PUD 106c83067 PMD 0 [ 105.186404] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 105.186412] CPU: 3 PID: 3250 Comm: poc Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc5 #1 [ 105.186423] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 105.186427] RIP: 0010:bpf_lwt_push_ip_encap+0x1eb/0x520 [ 105.186443] Code: 0f 84 de 01 00 00 0f b7 4a 04 66 85 c9 0f 85 47 01 00 00 31 c0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 73 58 48 83 e6 fe <48> 8b 36 0f b7 be ec 00 00 00 0f b7 b6 e6 00 00 00 01 fe 83 e6 f0 [ 105.186449] RSP: 0018:ffffbb0e0387bc50 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 105.186455] RAX: 000000000000004e RBX: ffff94c74e036500 RCX: ffff94c74874da00 [ 105.186460] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff94c74e036500 [ 105.186463] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 105.186467] R10: ffffbb0e0387bd50 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffbb0e0387bc98 [ 105.186471] R13: 0000000000000014 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000002 [ 105.186484] FS: 00007f166aa4d680(0000) GS:ffff94c8b7780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 105.186490] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 105.186494] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000015eade001 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ 105.186499] PKRU: 55555554 [ 105.186502] Call Trace: [ 105.186507] <TASK> [ 105.186513] bpf_lwt_xmit_push_encap+0x2b/0x40 [ 105.186522] bpf_prog_a75eaad51e517912+0x41/0x49 [ 105.186536] ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x18/0x30 [ 105.186547] ? ktime_get+0x3c/0xa0 [ 105.186554] bpf_test_run+0x195/0x320 [ 105.186563] ? bpf_test_run+0x10f/0x320 [ 105.186579] bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x2f5/0x4f0 [ 105.186590] __sys_bpf+0x69c/0xa40 [ 105.186603] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1e/0x30 [ 105.186611] do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110 [ 105.186620] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0xe0 [ 105.186649] RIP: 0033:0x7f166a97455d Temporarily add the setting of skb->_skb_refdst before bpf_test_run to resolve the issue.

Linux Denial Of Service Debian
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EPSS 0%
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7915_mac_dump_work() When the mt7915 pci chip is detaching, the mt7915_crash_data is released in mt7915_coredump_unregister(). However, the work item dump_work may still be running or pending, leading to UAF bugs when the already freed crash_data is dereferenced again in mt7915_mac_dump_work(). The race condition can occur as follows: CPU 0 (removal path) | CPU 1 (workqueue) mt7915_pci_remove() | mt7915_sys_recovery_set() mt7915_unregister_device() | mt7915_reset() mt7915_coredump_unregister() | queue_work() vfree(dev->coredump.crash_data) | mt7915_mac_dump_work() | crash_data-> // UAF Fix this by ensuring dump_work is properly canceled before the crash_data is deallocated. Add cancel_work_sync() in mt7915_unregister_device() to synchronize with any pending or executing dump work.

Linux Denial Of Service
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EPSS 0%
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7996_mac_dump_work() When the mt7996 pci chip is detaching, the mt7996_crash_data is released in mt7996_coredump_unregister(). However, the work item dump_work may still be running or pending, leading to UAF bugs when the already freed crash_data is dereferenced again in mt7996_mac_dump_work(). The race condition can occur as follows: CPU 0 (removal path) | CPU 1 (workqueue) mt7996_pci_remove() | mt7996_sys_recovery_set() mt7996_unregister_device() | mt7996_reset() mt7996_coredump_unregister() | queue_work() vfree(dev->coredump.crash_data) | mt7996_mac_dump_work() | crash_data-> // UAF Fix this by ensuring dump_work is properly canceled before the crash_data is deallocated. Add cancel_work_sync() in mt7996_unregister_device() to synchronize with any pending or executing dump work.

Linux Denial Of Service
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EPSS 0%
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_fw: fix NULL dereference of "old" filters before change() Like pointed out by Sashiko [1], since commit ed76f5edccc9 ("net: sched: protect filter_chain list with filter_chain_lock mutex") TC filters are added to a shared block and published to datapath before their ->change() function is called. This is a problem for cls_fw: an invalid filter created with the "old" method can still classify some packets before it is destroyed by the validation logic added by Xiang. Therefore, insisting with repeated runs of the following script: # ip link add dev crash0 type dummy # ip link set dev crash0 up # mausezahn crash0 -c 100000 -P 10 \ > -A 4.3.2.1 -B 1.2.3.4 -t udp "dp=1234" -q & # sleep 1 # tc qdisc add dev crash0 egress_block 1 clsact # tc filter add block 1 protocol ip prio 1 matchall \ > action skbedit mark 65536 continue # tc filter add block 1 protocol ip prio 2 fw # ip link del dev crash0 can still make fw_classify() hit the WARN_ON() in [2]: WARNING: ./include/net/pkt_cls.h:88 at fw_classify+0x244/0x250 [cls_fw], CPU#18: mausezahn/1399 Modules linked in: cls_fw(E) act_skbedit(E) CPU: 18 UID: 0 PID: 1399 Comm: mausezahn Tainted: G E 7.0.0-rc6-virtme #17 PREEMPT(full) Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.16.3-2.el9 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:fw_classify+0x244/0x250 [cls_fw] Code: 5c 49 c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 5b b8 ff ff ff ff 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb a0 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 RSP: 0018:ffffd1b7026bf8a8 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: ffff8c5ac9c60800 RBX: ffff8c5ac99322c0 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8c5b74d7a000 RDI: ffff8c5ac8284f40 RBP: ffffd1b7026bf8d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffd1b7026bf9b0 R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000010000 R13: ffffd1b7026bf930 R14: ffff8c5ac8284f40 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fca40c37740(0000) GS:ffff8c5b74d7a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fca40e822a0 CR3: 0000000005ca0001 CR4: 0000000000172ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> tcf_classify+0x17d/0x5c0 tc_run+0x9d/0x150 __dev_queue_xmit+0x2ab/0x14d0 ip_finish_output2+0x340/0x8f0 ip_output+0xa4/0x250 raw_sendmsg+0x147d/0x14b0 __sys_sendto+0x1cc/0x1f0 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x126/0xf80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fca40e822ba Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 7e c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 48 83 ec 30 44 89 RSP: 002b:00007ffc248a42c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055ef233289d0 RCX: 00007fca40e822ba RDX: 000000000000001e RSI: 000055ef23328c30 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 000055ef233289d0 R08: 00007ffc248a42d0 R09: 0000000000000010 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000001e R13: 00000000000186a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fca41043000 </TASK> irq event stamp: 1045778 hardirqs last enabled at (1045784): [<ffffffff864ec042>] __up_console_sem+0x52/0x60 hardirqs last disabled at (1045789): [<ffffffff864ec027>] __up_console_sem+0x37/0x60 softirqs last enabled at (1045426): [<ffffffff874d48c7>] __alloc_skb+0x207/0x260 softirqs last disabled at (1045434): [<ffffffff874fe8f8>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x78/0x14d0 Then, because of the value in the packet's mark, dereference on 'q->handle' with NULL 'q' occurs: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038 [...] RIP: 0010:fw_classify+0x1fe/0x250 [cls_fw] [...] Skip "old-style" classification on shared blocks, so that the NULL dereference is fixed and WARN_ON() is not hit anymore in the short lifetime of invalid cls_fw "old-style" filters. [1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/2 ---truncated---

Linux Red Hat Denial Of Service
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: Clear HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT on error When hci_register_dev() fails in hci_uart_register_dev() HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT is not cleared before calling hu->proto->close(hu) and setting hu->hdev to NULL. This means incoming UART data will reach the protocol-specific recv handler in hci_uart_tty_receive() after resources are freed. Clear HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT with a write lock before calling hu->proto->close() and setting hu->hdev to NULL. The write lock ensures all active readers have completed and no new reader can enter the protocol recv path before resources are freed. This allows the protocol-specific recv functions to remove the "HCI_UART_REGISTERED" guard without risking a null pointer dereference if hci_register_dev() fails.

Linux Denial Of Service
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in the Linux kernel network/BPF subsystem allows a NULL-pointer dereference and kernel panic via xdp_master_redirect() when XDP frames are redirected through a bonding master that was never brought up. Because bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key is a global static key, attaching native XDP to any bond device system-wide enables the XDP_TX→xdp_master_redirect() interception for every slave, letting traffic reach bond_rr_gen_slave_id() against a round-robin bond whose per-CPU rr_tx_counter is still NULL (allocated only in bond_open()). Exploitation probability is low (EPSS 0.16%, 6th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the original crash was discovered and reproduced by syzkaller.

Linux Denial Of Service
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix null-deref with concurrent writes in passthrough mode In passthrough mode, when dm-cache starts to invalidate a cache entry and bio prison cell lock fails due to concurrent write to the same cached block, mg->cell remains NULL. The error path in invalidate_complete() attempts to unlock and free the cell unconditionally, causing a NULL pointer dereference: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 134 Comm: fio Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7 #3 PREEMPT RIP: 0010:dm_cell_unlock_v2+0x3f/0x210 <snip> Call Trace: invalidate_complete+0xef/0x430 map_bio+0x130f/0x1a10 cache_map+0x320/0x6b0 __map_bio+0x458/0x510 dm_submit_bio+0x40e/0x16d0 __submit_bio+0x419/0x870 <snip> Reproduce steps: 1. Create a cache device dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 262144 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct dmsetup create cache --table "0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2. Promote the first data block into cache fio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name=populate --rw=write --bs=4k \ --direct=1 --size=64k 3. Reload the cache into passthrough mode dmsetup suspend cache dmsetup reload cache --table "0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 passthrough smq 0" dmsetup resume cache 4. Write to the first cached block concurrently fio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name test --rw=randwrite --bs=4k \ --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --numjobs=2 --size 64k Fix by checking if mg->cell is valid before attempting to unlock it.

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/bridge: cadence: cdns-mhdp8546-core: Set the mhdp connector earlier in atomic_enable() In case if we get errors in cdns_mhdp_link_up() or cdns_mhdp_reg_read() in atomic_enable, we will go to cdns_mhdp_modeset_retry_fn() and will hit NULL pointer while trying to access the mutex. We need the connector to be set before that. Unlike in legacy cases with flag !DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR, we do not have connector initialised in bridge_attach(), so add the mhdp->connector_ptr in device structure to handle both cases with DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR and !DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR, set it in atomic_enable() earlier to avoid possible NULL pointer dereference in recovery paths like modeset_retry_fn() with the DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR flag set.

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: fix mismatch between power and frequency During DPU runtime suspend, calling dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, 0) drops the MMCX rail to MIN_SVS while the core clock frequency remains at its original (highest) rate. When runtime resume re-enables the clock, this may result in a mismatch between the rail voltage and the clock rate. For example, in the DPU bind path, the sequence could be: cpu0: dev_sync_state -> rpmhpd_sync_state cpu1: dpu_kms_hw_init timeline 0 ------------------------------------------------> t After rpmhpd_sync_state, the voltage performance is no longer guaranteed to stay at the highest level. During dpu_kms_hw_init, calling dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, 0) drops the voltage, causing the MMCX rail to fall to MIN_SVS while the core clock is still at its maximum frequency. When the power is re-enabled, only the clock is enabled, leading to a situation where the MMCX rail is at MIN_SVS but the core clock is at its highest rate. In this state, the rail cannot sustain the clock rate, which may cause instability or system crash. Remove the call to dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, 0) from dpu_runtime_suspend to ensure the correct vote is restored when DPU resumes. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/710077/

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: prevent NULL pointer dereference during unmount When flushing out outstanding glock work during an unmount, gfs2_log_flush() can be called when sdp->sd_jdesc has already been deallocated and sdp->sd_jdesc is NULL. Commit 35264909e9d1 ("gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush") added a check for that to gfs2_log_flush() itself, but it missed the sdp->sd_jdesc dereference in gfs2_log_release(). Fix that.

Linux Denial Of Service
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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Denial-of-service (NULL-pointer dereference / use-after-free) in the Linux kernel's in-kernel SMB3 server (ksmbd) affects systems that offload SMB3 message encryption to asynchronous hardware crypto engines such as the Qualcomm Crypto Engine (QCE). ksmbd_crypt_message() installs a NULL completion callback and misinterprets the -EINPROGRESS return from async AEAD requests as a fatal error, freeing the request while the hardware DMA is still running so the later qce_skcipher_done() callback dereferences freed memory and crashes the kernel. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, it is not in CISA KEV, and EPSS is low (0.18%, 8th percentile), consistent with the narrow hardware/configuration prerequisites despite the NVD CVSS of 9.8.

Linux Denial Of Service Qualcomm
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fwctl: Fix class init ordering to avoid NULL pointer dereference on device removal CXL is linked before fwctl in drivers/Makefile. Both use `module_init, so `cxl_pci_driver_init()` runs first. When `cxl_pci_probe()` calls `fwctl_register()` and then `device_add()`, fwctl_class is not yet registered because fwctl_init() hasn't run, causing `class_to_subsys()` to return NULL and skip knode_class initialization. On device removal, `class_to_subsys()` returns non-NULL, and `device_del()` calls `klist_del()` on the uninitialized knode, triggering a NULL pointer dereference.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Linux
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's BPF sockmap subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to crash the system via a race condition between AF_UNIX socket connection and sockmap proto update. The flaw exists because unix_stream_connect() sets sk_state to TCP_ESTABLISHED before assigning the peer pointer, creating a window where unix_stream_bpf_update_proto() dereferences unix_peer(sk) while it is still NULL. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at the 8th percentile; this is not in CISA KEV, and the narrow race window constrains practical exploitation.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix NULL deref in map_kptr_match_type for scalar regs Commit ab6c637ad027 ("bpf: Fix a bpf_kptr_xchg() issue with local kptr") refactored map_kptr_match_type() to branch on btf_is_kernel() before checking base_type(). A scalar register stored into a kptr slot has no btf, so the btf_is_kernel(reg->btf) call dereferences NULL. Move the base_type() != PTR_TO_BTF_ID guard before any reg->btf access.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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Error pointer dereference in the Linux kernel USB Type-C TI Power Delivery (tipd) driver allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel (denial of service) on systems with TI CD321x or TPS6598x USB Type-C controller hardware. The flaw in `cd321x_update_work()` at `drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c:827` logs a warning when `typec_register_partner()` fails but omits an early return, causing a subsequent unconditional dereference of the error pointer via `typec_partner_set_identity()`. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS probability is 0.17% (6th percentile), and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
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Local privilege-level denial of service in the Linux kernel's Greybus 'raw' character device driver (gb_raw) allows a user with access to the chardev to trigger a use-after-free by writing to the device after a disconnect has freed the underlying gb_connection object, causing a kernel NULL pointer dereference and panic (observed reliably with CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y). The flaw is a race between the raw_write() path calling gb_operation_sync_timeout() and gb_connection_destroy() running during disconnect. EPSS is low (0.16%, 6th percentile) with no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing.

Linux Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +1
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nexthop: fix IPv6 route referencing IPv4 nexthop syzbot reported a panic [1] [2]. When an IPv6 nexthop is replaced with an IPv4 nexthop, the has_v4 flag of all groups containing this nexthop is not updated. This is because nh_group_v4_update is only called when replacing AF_INET to AF_INET6, but the reverse direction (AF_INET6 to AF_INET) is missed. This allows a stale has_v4=false to bypass fib6_check_nexthop, causing IPv6 routes to be attached to groups that effectively contain only AF_INET members. Subsequent route lookups then call nexthop_fib6_nh() which returns NULL for the AF_INET member, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. Fix by calling nh_group_v4_update whenever the family changes, not just AF_INET to AF_INET6. Reproducer: # AF_INET6 blackhole ip -6 nexthop add id 1 blackhole # group with has_v4=false ip nexthop add id 100 group 1 # replace with AF_INET (no -6), has_v4 stays false ip nexthop replace id 1 blackhole # pass stale has_v4 check ip -6 route add 2001:db8::/64 nhid 100 # panic ping -6 2001:db8::1 [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=e17283eb2f8dcf3dd9b47fe6f67a95f71faadad0 [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=8699b6ae54c9f35837d925686208402949e12ef3

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
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NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel ICE (Intel Ethernet Controller) driver allows a local low-privileged attacker to trigger a kernel panic via a race condition during TX timestamp ring teardown. The flaw exists in systems using Intel ICE-series NICs with TX timestamping configured, where concurrent execution of ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring() and ice_tx_map() across CPU cores can cause CPU B to dereference a pointer that CPU A has already set to NULL. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; EPSS is 0.15% (5th percentile), consistent with its local, timing-dependent nature.

Denial Of Service Race Condition Linux
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix potential NULL pointer deref in error path of ice_set_ringparam() ice_set_ringparam nullifies tstamp_ring of temporary tx_rings, without clearing ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME bit. When ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME is set and the subsequent ice_setup_tx_ring() call fails, a NULL pointer dereference could happen in the unwinding sequence: ice_clean_tx_ring() -> ice_is_txtime_cfg() == true (ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME is set) -> ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring() -> ice_free_tstamp_ring() -> tstamp_ring->desc (NULL deref) Clear ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME bit to avoid the potential issue. Note that this potential issue is found by manual code review. Compile test only since unfortunately I don't have E830 devices.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
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Kernel panic (denial of service) in the Linux kernel netfilter nfnetlink_osf module occurs because nf_osf_ttl() dereferences skb->dev during its TTL check without validating the device pointer, allowing a crafted packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on hosts using the OS-fingerprint (osf) match. The flaw affects systems with nftables/iptables rulesets that employ the osf TTL check, and is rated availability-only impact (CVSS 7.5, AV:N/A:H). There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS is low (0.18%, 7th percentile), and it is not in CISA KEV; the fix has been merged across multiple stable trees.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's sch_dualpi2 queuing discipline (net/sched) allows a local attacker with low privileges to crash the kernel, causing a denial of service. The flaw exists in dualpi2_change(), which enforces updated queue limits after a qdisc reconfiguration: when traffic is exclusively queued in the L-queue and the C-queue is empty, the function unconditionally dereferences the NULL skb returned by the C-queue dequeue path, triggering a kernel panic. No public exploit code has been identified and EPSS sits at 0.17% (7th percentile), consistent with a locally-triggered, configuration-dependent kernel bug.

Linux Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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Out-of-bounds memory access in the Linux kernel's netfilter SIP connection-tracking helper (nf_conntrack_sip) stems from parsing port numbers in non-NUL-terminated socket-buffer data with simple_strtoul() and dereferencing pointers after sip_parse_addr() without bounds checks. Remote attackers sending crafted SIP messages through a host where the SIP conntrack/NAT helper is active could read past the packet buffer, risking information disclosure or instability (tagged Information Disclosure). Despite a CVSS of 9.8, EPSS is only 0.18% (8th percentile) and no public exploit is identified at time of analysis; a vendor fix is available across multiple stable trees.

Linux Null Pointer Dereference Denial Of Service
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EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Clear rel_deadline when initializing forked entities A yield-triggered crash can happen when a newly forked sched_entity enters the fair class with se->rel_deadline unexpectedly set. The failing sequence is: 1. A task is forked while se->rel_deadline is still set. 2. __sched_fork() initializes vruntime, vlag and other sched_entity state, but does not clear rel_deadline. 3. On the first enqueue, enqueue_entity() calls place_entity(). 4. Because se->rel_deadline is set, place_entity() treats se->deadline as a relative deadline and converts it to an absolute deadline by adding the current vruntime. 5. However, the forked entity's deadline is not a valid inherited relative deadline for this new scheduling instance, so the conversion produces an abnormally large deadline. 6. If the task later calls sched_yield(), yield_task_fair() advances se->vruntime to se->deadline. 7. The inflated vruntime is then used by the following enqueue path, where the vruntime-derived key can overflow when multiplied by the entity weight. 8. This corrupts cfs_rq->sum_w_vruntime, breaks EEVDF eligibility calculation, and can eventually make all entities appear ineligible. pick_next_entity() may then return NULL unexpectedly, leading to a later NULL dereference. A captured trace shows the effect clearly. Before yield, the entity's vruntime was around: 9834017729983308 After yield_task_fair() executed: se->vruntime = se->deadline the vruntime jumped to: 19668035460670230 and the deadline was later advanced further to: 19668035463470230 This shows that the deadline had already become abnormally large before yield_task_fair() copied it into vruntime. rel_deadline is only meaningful when se->deadline really carries a relative deadline that still needs to be placed against vruntime. A freshly forked sched_entity should not inherit or retain this state. Clear se->rel_deadline in __sched_fork(), together with the other sched_entity runtime state, so that the first enqueue does not interpret the new entity's deadline as a stale relative deadline.

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