Integer Underflow Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.185.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELSYMS-8506077
  • published14 Dec 2024
  • disclosed13 Dec 2024

Introduced: 13 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53061  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-191  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-syms to version 5.3.18-150300.59.185.1 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:

media: s5p-jpeg: prevent buffer overflows

The current logic allows word to be less than 2. If this happens, there will be buffer overflows, as reported by smatch. Add extra checks to prevent it.

While here, remove an unused word = 0 assignment.

CVSS Scores

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