CVE-2024-53240 Affecting kernel-default package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.188.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULT-8649553
  • published22 Jan 2025
  • disclosed21 Jan 2025

Introduced: 21 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-53240  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default to version 5.3.18-150300.59.188.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device

When removing a netfront device directly after a suspend/resume cycle it might happen that the queues have not been setup again, causing a crash during the attempt to stop the queues another time.

Fix that by checking the queues are existing before trying to stop them.

This is XSA-465 / CVE-2024-53240.

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