Divide By Zero Affecting kernel-azure package, versions <5.14.21-150500.33.72.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELAZURE-8378616
  • published14 Nov 2024
  • disclosed13 Nov 2024

Introduced: 13 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-49899  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-369  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-azure to version 5.14.21-150500.33.72.1 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:

drm/amd/display: Initialize denominators' default to 1

[WHAT & HOW] Variables used as denominators and maybe not assigned to other values, should not be 0. Change their default to 1 so they are never 0.

This fixes 10 DIVIDE_BY_ZERO issues reported by Coverity.

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