Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting kernel-default package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.73.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULT-7702723
  • published17 Aug 2024
  • disclosed16 Aug 2024

Introduced: 16 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-36288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default to version 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

SUNRPC: Fix loop termination condition in gss_free_in_token_pages()

The in_token->pages[] array is not NULL terminated. This results in the following KASAN splat:

KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x04a2013400000008-0x04a201340000000f]

CVSS Scores

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