CVE-2021-47432 Affecting kernel-default-livepatch-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.14.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCHDEVEL-7548703
  • published23 Jul 2024
  • disclosed22 Jul 2024

Introduced: 22 Jul 2024

CVE-2021-47432  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-default-livepatch-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek()

When we started spreading new inode numbers throughout most of the 64 bit inode space, that triggered some corner case bugs, in particular some integer overflows related to the radix tree code. Oops.

CVSS Scores

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