Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <5.3.18-59.5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-2681406
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Jun 2021

Introduced: 15 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-28952  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default-livepatch to version 5.3.18-59.5.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. The sound/soc/qcom/sdm845.c soundwire device driver has a buffer overflow when an unexpected port ID number is encountered, aka CID-1c668e1c0a0f. (This has been fixed in 5.12-rc4.)

CVSS Scores

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