NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cluster-md-kmp-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.179.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-CLUSTERMDKMPDEFAULT-13625109
  • published18 Oct 2025
  • disclosed17 Oct 2025

Introduced: 17 Oct 2025

CVE-2023-53277  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 cluster-md-kmp-default to version 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cluster-md-kmp-default package and not the cluster-md-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwl3945: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue

Add the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1