Improper Initialization Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-8406593
  • published 26 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 19 Nov 2024

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools-libs-devel.

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:

HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer

Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

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