NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-azure-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.20.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELAZUREDEVEL-8504081
  • published14 Dec 2024
  • disclosed13 Dec 2024

Introduced: 13 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-50009  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-azure-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.8.20.1 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:

cpufreq: amd-pstate: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value

cpufreq_cpu_get may return NULL. To avoid NULL-dereference check it and return in case of error.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS Scores

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