Use After Free Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.3.18-150200.24.188.1


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-KERNELDOCS-6691115
  • published29 Apr 2024
  • disclosed26 Apr 2024

Introduced: 26 Apr 2024

CVE-2021-47142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-docs to version 5.3.18-150200.24.188.1 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:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

drm/amdgpu: Fix a use-after-free

looks like we forget to set ttm->sg to NULL. Hit panic below

[ 1235.844104] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b7b4b: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI [ 1235.989074] Call Trace: [ 1235.991751] sg_free_table+0x17/0x20 [ 1235.995667] amdgpu_ttm_backend_unbind.cold+0x4d/0xf7 [amdgpu] [ 1236.002288] amdgpu_ttm_backend_destroy+0x29/0x130 [amdgpu] [ 1236.008464] ttm_tt_destroy+0x1e/0x30 [ttm] [ 1236.013066] ttm_bo_cleanup_memtype_use+0x51/0xa0 [ttm] [ 1236.018783] ttm_bo_release+0x262/0xa50 [ttm] [ 1236.023547] ttm_bo_put+0x82/0xd0 [ttm] [ 1236.027766] amdgpu_bo_unref+0x26/0x50 [amdgpu] [ 1236.032809] amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0x7aa/0xd90 [amdgpu] [ 1236.040400] kfd_ioctl_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0xe2/0x330 [amdgpu] [ 1236.046912] kfd_ioctl+0x463/0x690 [amdgpu]

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