CVE-2023-52841 Affecting kernel-obs-build package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.122.2


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-KERNELOBSBUILD-7397994
  • published26 Jun 2024
  • disclosed25 Jun 2024

Introduced: 25 Jun 2024

CVE-2023-52841  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-obs-build to version 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

media: vidtv: mux: Add check and kfree for kstrdup

Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Moreover, use kfree() in the later error handling in order to avoid memory leak.

CVSS Scores

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