Double Free Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.91.1


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-8651073
  • published22 Jan 2025
  • disclosed11 Mar 2025

Introduced: 22 Jan 2025

CVE-2024-53213  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150500.55.91.1 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:

net: usb: lan78xx: Fix double free issue with interrupt buffer allocation

In lan78xx_probe(), the buffer buf was being freed twice: once implicitly through usb_free_urb(dev-&gt;urb_intr) with the URB_FREE_BUFFER flag and again explicitly by kfree(buf). This caused a double free issue.

To resolve this, reordered kmalloc() and usb_alloc_urb() calls to simplify the initialization sequence and removed the redundant kfree(buf). Now, buf is allocated after usb_alloc_urb(), ensuring it is correctly managed by usb_fill_int_urb() and freed by usb_free_urb() as intended.

CVSS Base Scores

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