NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.167.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-10726614
  • published12 Jul 2025
  • disclosed9 Jul 2025

Introduced: 9 Jul 2025

CVE-2023-53139  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default-livepatch to version 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

nfc: fdp: add null check of devm_kmalloc_array in fdp_nci_i2c_read_device_properties

devm_kmalloc_array may fails, *fw_vsc_cfg might be null and cause out-of-bounds write in device_property_read_u8_array later.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1