Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.182.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
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-8447567
  • published3 Dec 2024
  • disclosed2 Dec 2024

Introduced: 2 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2022-49023  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-macros to version 5.3.18-150300.59.182.1 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:

wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison

For vendor elements, the code here assumes that 5 octets are present without checking. Since the element itself is already checked to fit, we only need to check the length.

CVSS Scores

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