CVE-2024-42097 Affecting kernel-64kb-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.22.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNEL64KBDEVEL-8077955
  • published24 Sept 2024
  • disclosed23 Sept 2024

Introduced: 23 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-42097  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-64kb-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.22.1 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:

ALSA: emux: improve patch ioctl data validation

In load_data(), make the validation of and skipping over the main info block match that in load_guspatch().

In load_guspatch(), add checking that the specified patch length matches the actually supplied data, like load_data() already did.

CVSS Scores

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