Integer Underflow Affecting kernel-default-livepatch-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.30.1


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-8515358
  • published14 Dec 2024
  • disclosed13 Dec 2024

Introduced: 13 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53081  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-191  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-default-livepatch-devel 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-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:

media: ar0521: don't overflow when checking PLL values

The PLL checks are comparing 64 bit integers with 32 bit ones, as reported by Coverity. Depending on the values of the variables, this may underflow.

Fix it ensuring that both sides of the expression are u64.

CVSS Scores

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