Use of Uninitialized Resource 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% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELSYMS-8735120
  • published19 Feb 2025
  • disclosed18 Feb 2025

Introduced: 18 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2024-56739  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

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:

rtc: check if __rtc_read_time was successful in rtc_timer_do_work()

If the __rtc_read_time call fails,, the struct rtc_time tm; may contain uninitialized data, or an illegal date/time read from the RTC hardware.

When calling rtc_tm_to_ktime later, the result may be a very large value (possibly KTIME_MAX). If there are periodic timers in rtc->timerqueue, they will continually expire, may causing kernel softlockup.

CVSS Scores

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