CVE-2024-50179 Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.88.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-8526907
  • published18 Dec 2024
  • disclosed17 Dec 2024

Introduced: 17 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-50179  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150500.55.88.1 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:

ceph: remove the incorrect Fw reference check when dirtying pages

When doing the direct-io reads it will also try to mark pages dirty, but for the read path it won't hold the Fw caps and there is case will it get the Fw reference.

CVSS Scores

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