CVE-2023-52861 Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.68.1


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-7387652
  • published26 Jun 2024
  • disclosed25 Jun 2024

Introduced: 25 Jun 2024

CVE-2023-52861  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-docs to version 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 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:

drm: bridge: it66121: Fix invalid connector dereference

Fix the NULL pointer dereference when no monitor is connected, and the sound card is opened from userspace.

Instead return an empty buffer (of zeroes) as the EDID information to the sound framework if there is no connector attached.

CVSS Scores

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