CVE-2024-36914 Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.17.3


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-KERNELDOCS-7648511
  • published8 Aug 2024
  • disclosed7 Aug 2024

Introduced: 7 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-36914  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-docs to version 6.4.0-150600.23.17.3 or higher.

NVD Description

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

drm/amd/display: Skip on writeback when it's not applicable

[WHY] dynamic memory safety error detector (KASAN) catches and generates error messages "BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds" as writeback connector does not support certain features which are not initialized.

[HOW] Skip them when connector type is DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_WRITEBACK.

CVSS Scores

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