CVE-2024-23850 Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.119.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEVEL-6845680
  • published15 May 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2024

Introduced: 14 May 2024

CVE-2024-23850  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-devel to version 5.14.21-150400.24.119.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

In btrfs_get_root_ref in fs/btrfs/disk-io.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1, there can be an assertion failure and crash because a subvolume can be read out too soon after its root item is inserted upon subvolume creation.

CVSS Scores

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