CVE-2024-26679 Affecting kernel-azure package, versions <5.14.21-150500.33.51.1


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-SLES155-KERNELAZURE-6843637
  • published15 May 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2024

Introduced: 14 May 2024

CVE-2024-26679  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-azure to version 5.14.21-150500.33.51.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure package and not the kernel-azure package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

inet: read sk->sk_family once in inet_recv_error()

inet_recv_error() is called without holding the socket lock.

IPv6 socket could mutate to IPv4 with IPV6_ADDRFORM socket option and trigger a KCSAN warning.

CVSS Scores

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