CVE-2024-56681 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.94.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELSYMS-8734964
  • published19 Feb 2025
  • disclosed18 Feb 2025

Introduced: 18 Feb 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-syms to version 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms 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:

crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function

The ahash_init functions may return fails. The ahash_hmac_init should not return ok when ahash_init returns error. For an example, ahash_init will return -ENOMEM when allocation memory is error.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1