CVE-2024-26749 Affecting kernel-macros 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
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-6858154
  • published16 May 2024
  • disclosed15 May 2024

Introduced: 15 May 2024

CVE-2024-26749  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros 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-macros package and not the kernel-macros 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: cdns3: fixed memory use after free at cdns3_gadget_ep_disable()

... cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request(&priv_ep->endpoint, &priv_req->request); list_del_init(&priv_req->list); ...

'priv_req' actually free at cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request(). But list_del_init() use priv_req->list after it.

[ 1542.642868][ T534] BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __list_del_entry_valid+0x10/0xd4 [ 1542.642868][ T534] [ 1542.653162][ T534] Use-after-free read at 0x000000009ed0ba99 (in kfence-#3): [ 1542.660311][ T534] __list_del_entry_valid+0x10/0xd4 [ 1542.665375][ T534] cdns3_gadget_ep_disable+0x1f8/0x388 [cdns3] [ 1542.671571][ T534] usb_ep_disable+0x44/0xe4 [ 1542.675948][ T534] ffs_func_eps_disable+0x64/0xc8 [ 1542.680839][ T534] ffs_func_set_alt+0x74/0x368 [ 1542.685478][ T534] ffs_func_disable+0x18/0x28

Move list_del_init() before cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request() to resolve this problem.

CVSS Scores

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