Double Free Affecting kernel-devel-coco 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
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEVELCOCO-8678122
  • published30 Jan 2025
  • disclosed29 Jan 2025

Introduced: 29 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-56766  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-devel-coco 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-devel-coco package and not the kernel-devel-coco 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:

mtd: rawnand: fix double free in atmel_pmecc_create_user()

The "user" pointer was converted from being allocated with kzalloc() to being allocated by devm_kzalloc(). Calling kfree(user) will lead to a double free.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1