NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.30.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-8509037
  • published14 Dec 2024
  • disclosed13 Dec 2024

Introduced: 13 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-47737  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-default-livepatch to version 6.4.0-150600.23.30.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

nfsd: call cache_put if xdr_reserve_space returns NULL

If not enough buffer space available, but idmap_lookup has triggered lookup_fn which calls cache_get and returns successfully. Then we missed to call cache_put here which pairs with cache_get.

Reviwed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

CVSS Base Scores

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