NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-azure-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELAZUREDEVEL-8170214
  • published9 Oct 2024
  • disclosed8 Oct 2024

Introduced: 8 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-46677  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-azure-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.8.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure-devel package and not the kernel-azure-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:

gtp: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

When sockfd_lookup() fails, gtp_encap_enable_socket() returns a NULL pointer, but its callers only check for error pointers thus miss the NULL pointer case.

Fix it by returning an error pointer with the error code carried from sockfd_lookup().

(I found this bug during code inspection.)

CVSS Scores

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