NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.179.1


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-8181299
  • published11 Oct 2024
  • disclosed10 Oct 2024

Introduced: 10 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-45021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-syms to version 5.3.18-150300.59.179.1 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:

memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops

we are not guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1