NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting dlm-kmp-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.161.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-DLMKMPDEFAULT-9686142
  • published11 Apr 2025
  • disclosed10 Apr 2025

Introduced: 10 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2023-52979  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 dlm-kmp-default to version 5.14.21-150400.24.161.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dlm-kmp-default package and not the dlm-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:

squashfs: harden sanity check in squashfs_read_xattr_id_table

While mounting a corrupted filesystem, a signed integer '*xattr_ids' can become less than zero. This leads to the incorrect computation of 'len' and 'indexes' values which can cause null-ptr-deref in copy_bio_to_actor() or out-of-bounds accesses in the next sanity checks inside squashfs_read_xattr_id_table().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1