Double Free Affecting kernel-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.5.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELAZURE-7347113
  • published22 Jun 2024
  • disclosed21 Jun 2024

Introduced: 21 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-35835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.5.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure package and not the kernel-azure 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/mlx5e: fix a double-free in arfs_create_groups

When in allocated by kvzalloc fails, arfs_create_groups will free ft->g and return an error. However, arfs_create_table, the only caller of arfs_create_groups, will hold this error and call to mlx5e_destroy_flow_table, in which the ft->g will be freed again.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1