Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-477.75.1.el8_8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-8188377
  • published 15 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 30 May 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-tools-libs-devel to version 0:4.18.0-477.75.1.el8_8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:8107.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix off by one in qla_edif_app_getstats()

The app_reply->elem[] array is allocated earlier in this function and it has app_req.num_ports elements. Thus this > comparison needs to be >= to prevent memory corruption.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

5.2 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

6.1 medium