Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_80-default package, versions <15-150500.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELLIVEPATCH514211505005580DEFAULT-13157588
  • published30 Sept 2025
  • disclosed27 Sept 2025

Introduced: 27 Sep 2025

CVE-2024-49860  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_80-default to version 15-150500.2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_80-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_80-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:

ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method

Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR.

If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1