NULL Pointer Dereference 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-8527768
  • published18 Dec 2024
  • disclosed17 Dec 2024

Introduced: 17 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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:

drm/amdgpu: prevent NULL pointer dereference if ATIF is not supported

acpi_evaluate_object() may return AE_NOT_FOUND (failure), which would result in dereferencing buffer.pointer (obj) while being NULL.

Although this case may be unrealistic for the current code, it is still better to protect against possible bugs.

Bail out also when status is AE_NOT_FOUND.

This fixes 1 FORWARD_NULL issue reported by Coverity Report: CID 1600951: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL)

(cherry picked from commit 91c9e221fe2553edf2db71627d8453f083de87a1)

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