CVE-2021-47210 Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.62.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDOCS-6855830
  • published16 May 2024
  • disclosed15 May 2024

Introduced: 15 May 2024

CVE-2021-47210  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-docs to version 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

usb: typec: tipd: Remove WARN_ON in tps6598x_block_read

Calling tps6598x_block_read with a higher than allowed len can be handled by just returning an error. There's no need to crash systems with panic-on-warn enabled.

CVSS Scores

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