NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.83.1.150500.6.37.1


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-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-8176388
  • published10 Oct 2024
  • disclosed9 Oct 2024

Introduced: 9 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-46686  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default-base to version 5.14.21-150500.55.83.1.150500.6.37.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

smb/client: avoid dereferencing rdata=NULL in smb2_new_read_req()

This happens when called from SMB2_read() while using rdma and reaching the rdma_readwrite_threshold.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1