CVE-2022-49162 Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_158-default package, versions <1-150400.9.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELLIVEPATCH5142115040024158DEFAULT-9529478
  • published27 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Mar 2025

Introduced: 26 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2022-49162  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_158-default to version 1-150400.9.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_158-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_158-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:

video: fbdev: sm712fb: Fix crash in smtcfb_write()

When the sm712fb driver writes three bytes to the framebuffer, the driver will crash:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90001ffffff
RIP: 0010:smtcfb_write+0x454/0x5b0
Call Trace:
 vfs_write+0x291/0xd60
 ? do_sys_openat2+0x27d/0x350
 ? __fget_light+0x54/0x340
 ksys_write+0xce/0x190
 do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Fix it by removing the open-coded endianness fixup-code.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1