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NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <4.12.14-25.19.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELDOCS-2761379
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 2 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-13094  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 kernel-docs to version 4.12.14-25.19.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. An OOPS may occur for a corrupted xfs image after xfs_da_shrink_inode() is called with a NULL bp.