Double Free Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.7.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDOCS-7718035
  • published20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed25 Jun 2024

Introduced: 25 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-36030  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-docs to version 6.4.0-150600.23.7.4 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:

octeontx2-af: fix the double free in rvu_npc_freemem()

Clang static checker(scan-build) warning: drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c:line 2184, column 2 Attempt to free released memory.

npc_mcam_rsrcs_deinit() has released 'mcam->counters.bmap'. Deleted this redundant kfree() to fix this double free problem.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1