CVE-2023-52607 Affecting kernel-macros 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% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELMACROS-6845490
  • published15 May 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2024

Introduced: 14 May 2024

CVE-2023-52607  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-macros 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-macros package and not the kernel-macros 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:

powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.

CVSS Scores

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