NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting gfs2-kmp-default package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.201.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-GFS2KMPDEFAULT-9716685
  • published16 Apr 2025
  • disclosed15 Apr 2025

Introduced: 15 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2022-49544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 gfs2-kmp-default to version 5.3.18-150300.59.201.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gfs2-kmp-default package and not the gfs2-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()

crypt and crypt->ops could be null, so we need to checking null before dereference

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1