Use After Free Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.150.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDOCS-6247939
  • published15 Feb 2024
  • disclosed14 Feb 2024

Introduced: 14 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-51782  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-docs to version 5.3.18-150300.59.150.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs 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 before 6.6.8. rose_ioctl in net/rose/af_rose.c has a use-after-free because of a rose_accept race condition.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1