CVE-2023-52607 Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.3.18-150200.24.188.1.150200.9.95.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-6692107
  • published29 Apr 2024
  • disclosed26 Apr 2024

Introduced: 26 Apr 2024

CVE-2023-52607  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-default-base to version 5.3.18-150200.24.188.1.150200.9.95.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1