CVE-2024-38617 Affecting kernel-64kb-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.14.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNEL64KBDEVEL-7554009
- published 23 Jul 2024
- disclosed 22 Jul 2024
Introduced: 22 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-38617 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-64kb-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.14.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb-devel package and not the kernel-64kb-devel package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kunit/fortify: Fix mismatched kvalloc()/vfree() usage
The kv*() family of tests were accidentally freeing with vfree() instead of kvfree(). Use kvfree() instead.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38617.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226859
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03758d5a0932016b6d5f5bfbca580177e6bc937a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42d21c9727028fe7ee392223ba127484b1b8677e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7880dbf4eafe22a6a41a42e774f1122c814ed02d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/998b18072ceb0613629c256b409f4d299829c7ec
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