Use After Free Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.3.18-150200.24.212.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELDOCS-8540547
  • published20 Dec 2024
  • disclosed19 Dec 2024

Introduced: 19 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-49925  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-docs to version 5.3.18-150200.24.212.1 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:

fbdev: efifb: Register sysfs groups through driver core

The driver core can register and cleanup sysfs groups already. Make use of that functionality to simplify the error handling and cleanup.

Also avoid a UAF race during unregistering where the sysctl attributes were usable after the info struct was freed.

CVSS Scores

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