CVE-2021-47291 Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_183-default package, versions <10-150200.5.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELLIVEPATCH531815020024183DEFAULT-8491331
  • published7 Dec 2024
  • disclosed6 Dec 2024

Introduced: 6 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2021-47291  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_183-default to version 10-150200.5.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_183-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_183-default 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:

ipv6: fix another slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions

While running the self-tests on a KASAN enabled kernel, I observed a slab-out-of-bounds splat very similar to the one reported in commit 821bbf79fe46 ("ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions").

We additionally need to take care of fib6_metrics initialization failure when the caller provides an nh.

The fix is similar, explicitly free the route instead of calling fib6_info_release on a half-initialized object.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1