NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.100.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELSYMS-9700052
  • published15 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Apr 2025

Introduced: 14 Apr 2025

CVE-2022-49453  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-syms to version 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 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:

soc: ti: ti_sci_pm_domains: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc

The allocation funciton devm_kcalloc may fail and return a null pointer, which would cause a null-pointer dereference later. It might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM just like the usage of devm_kcalloc in previous code.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1