NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-coco_debug package, versions <6.4.0-15061.12.coco15sp6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELCOCODEBUG-8678264
  • published30 Jan 2025
  • disclosed29 Jan 2025

Introduced: 29 Jan 2025

CVE-2024-56774  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-coco_debug to version 6.4.0-15061.12.coco15sp6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot()

Syzbot reports a null-ptr-deref in btrfs_search_slot().

The reproducer is using rescue=ibadroots, and the extent tree root is corrupted thus the extent tree is NULL.

When scrub tries to search the extent tree to gather the needed extent info, btrfs_search_slot() doesn't check if the target root is NULL or not, resulting the null-ptr-deref.

Add sanity check for btrfs root before using it in btrfs_search_slot().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1