NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-zfcpdump package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.73.1


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-KERNELZFCPDUMP-7700292
  • published17 Aug 2024
  • disclosed16 Aug 2024

Introduced: 16 Aug 2024

CVE-2023-52573  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-zfcpdump to version 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-zfcpdump package and not the kernel-zfcpdump 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: rds: Fix possible NULL-pointer dereference

In rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn() check, if conn pointer exists before dereferencing it as rdma_set_service_type() argument

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS Scores

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