CVE-2024-35940 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.7.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMS-7717100
- published 20 Aug 2024
- disclosed 25 Jun 2024
Introduced: 25 Jun 2024
CVE-2024-35940 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150600.23.7.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms 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:
pstore/zone: Add a null pointer check to the psz_kmsg_read
kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35940.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224537
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ff96ec22a84d80a18d7ae8ca7eb111c34ee33bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/635594cca59f9d7a8e96187600c34facb8bc0682
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f9f2e498eae7897ba5d3e33908917f68ff4abcc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98bc7e26e14fbb26a6abf97603d59532475e97f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e2b97acb875d65bdfc75fc408e67975cef3041
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec7256887d072f98c42cdbef4dcc80ddf84c7a70
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html