Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default package, versions <1-150600.13.3.1


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-KERNELLIVEPATCH6401506002333DEFAULT-8645851
  • published18 Jan 2025
  • disclosed17 Jan 2025

Introduced: 17 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-50143  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default to version 1-150600.13.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default 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:

udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad

Check for overflow when computing alen in udf_current_aext to mitigate later uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad KMSAN bug[1]. After applying the patch reproducer did not trigger any issue[2].

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8901c4560b7ab5c2f9df [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10242227980000

CVSS Scores

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