CVE-2021-47403 Affecting kernel-azure-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.33.57.1


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-KERNELAZUREDEVEL-7252383
  • published14 Jun 2024
  • disclosed13 Jun 2024

Introduced: 13 Jun 2024

CVE-2021-47403  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-azure-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.33.57.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

ipack: ipoctal: fix module reference leak

A reference to the carrier module was taken on every open but was only released once when the final reference to the tty struct was dropped.

Fix this by taking the module reference and initialising the tty driver data when installing the tty.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1