Race Condition Affecting kernel-obs-build package, versions <5.3.18-150200.24.209.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELOBSBUILD-8444142
  • published29 Nov 2024
  • disclosed28 Nov 2024

Introduced: 28 Nov 2024

NewCVE-2024-47668  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-obs-build to version 5.3.18-150200.24.209.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-obs-build package and not the kernel-obs-build 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:

lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc()

If we need to increase the tree depth, allocate a new node, and then race with another thread that increased the tree depth before us, we'll still have a preallocated node that might be used later.

If we then use that node for a new non-root node, it'll still have a pointer to the old root instead of being zeroed - fix this by zeroing it in the cmpxchg failure path.

CVSS Scores

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