NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cluster-md-kmp-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.158.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-CLUSTERMDKMPDEFAULT-9535943
  • published27 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Mar 2025

Introduced: 26 Mar 2025

CVE-2022-49688  (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 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 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:

afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

The recent patch to make afs_getattr consult the server didn't account for the pseudo-inodes employed by the dynamic root-type afs superblock not having a volume or a server to access, and thus an oops occurs if such a directory is stat'd.

Fix this by checking to see if the vnode->volume pointer actually points anywhere before following it in afs_getattr().

This can be tested by stat'ing a directory in /afs. It may be sufficient just to do "ls /afs" and the oops looks something like:

    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
    ...
    RIP: 0010:afs_getattr+0x8b/0x14b
    ...
    Call Trace:
     &lt;TASK&gt;
     vfs_statx+0x79/0xf5
     vfs_fstatat+0x49/0x62

CVSS Base Scores

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