Use After Free Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.141.1.150400.24.68.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-8449128
  • published3 Dec 2024
  • disclosed2 Dec 2024

Introduced: 2 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2022-49025  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default-base to version 5.14.21-150400.24.141.1.150400.24.68.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free when reverting termination table

When having multiple dests with termination tables and second one or afterwards fails the driver reverts usage of term tables but doesn't reset the assignment in attr->dests[num_vport_dests].termtbl which case a use-after-free when releasing the rule. Fix by resetting the assignment of termtbl to null.

CVSS Scores

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