Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.191.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDOCS-8722572
  • published14 Feb 2025
  • disclosed13 Feb 2025

Introduced: 13 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2024-53104  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-docs to version 5.3.18-150300.59.191.1 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.

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

media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format

This can lead to out of bounds writes since frames of this type were not taken into account when calculating the size of the frames buffer in uvc_parse_streaming.

CVSS Scores

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