NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-vanilla-base package, versions <4.12.14-150000.150.92.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELVANILLABASE-2929483
  • published17 Jun 2022
  • disclosed16 Jun 2022

Introduced: 16 Jun 2022

CVE-2021-38208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 kernel-vanilla-base to version 4.12.14-150000.150.92.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

net/nfc/llcp_sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.10 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) by making a getsockname call after a certain type of failure of a bind call.

CVSS Scores

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