CVE-2024-40999 Affecting kernel-64kb-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.17.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNEL64KBDEVEL-7649698
  • published 8 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 7 Aug 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-64kb-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.17.1 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:

net: ena: Add validation for completion descriptors consistency

Validate that first flag is set only for the first descriptor in multi-buffer packets. In case of an invalid descriptor, a reset will occur. A new reset reason for RX data corruption has been added.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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SUSE

3.6 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

4.4 medium