NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.174.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELMACROS-7985137
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed16 Sept 2024

Introduced: 16 Sep 2024

CVE-2022-48824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-macros to version 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

scsi: myrs: Fix crash in error case

In myrs_detect(), cs->disable_intr is NULL when privdata->hw_init() fails with non-zero. In this case, myrs_cleanup(cs) will call a NULL ptr and crash the kernel.

[ 1.105606] myrs 0000:00:03.0: Unknown Initialization Error 5A [ 1.105872] myrs 0000:00:03.0: Failed to initialize Controller [ 1.106082] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 1.110774] Call Trace: [ 1.110950] myrs_cleanup+0xe4/0x150 [myrs] [ 1.111135] myrs_probe.cold+0x91/0x56a [myrs] [ 1.111302] ? DAC960_GEM_intr_handler+0x1f0/0x1f0 [myrs] [ 1.111500] local_pci_probe+0x48/0x90

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