Use After Free Affecting kernel-syms 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% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELSYMS-7985331
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed16 Sept 2024

Introduced: 16 Sep 2024

CVE-2022-48851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-syms 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-syms package and not the kernel-syms 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:

staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()

The netif_rx_ni() function frees the skb so we can't dereference it to save the skb->len.

CVSS Scores

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