NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_97-default package, versions <1-150500.11.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELLIVEPATCH514211505005597DEFAULT-9398678
  • published12 Mar 2025
  • disclosed11 Mar 2025

Introduced: 11 Mar 2025

CVE-2024-53226  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_97-default to version 1-150500.11.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_97-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_97-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:

RDMA/hns: Fix NULL pointer derefernce in hns_roce_map_mr_sg()

ib_map_mr_sg() allows ULPs to specify NULL as the sg_offset argument. The driver needs to check whether it is a NULL pointer before dereferencing it.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1