CVE-2018-16871: Red Hat kernel:

NULL pointer dereference in Red Hat kernel:

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.027 · 86th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 30 Jul 2019, 16:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	kernel:	affected all 3.x, all 4.x up to 4.20

Identifiers

CVE-2018-16871

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-476

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.027, the 86th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 30 Jul 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16871 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2696 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2730 vendor-advisoryredhat
support.f5.com/csp/article/K18657134 confirm
support.f5.com/csp/article/K18657134?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0740 vendor-advisoryredhat
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211004-0002/ confirm

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.