NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.25.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMS-8176523
- published 10 Oct 2024
- disclosed 9 Oct 2024
Introduced: 9 Oct 2024
New CVE-2024-45021 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150600.23.25.1 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:
memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops
we are not guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45021.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230434
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/046667c4d3196938e992fba0dfcde570aa85cd0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fbe2a72e853a1052abe9bc2b7df8ddb102da227
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b37ec85ad95b612307627758c6018cd9d92cca8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21b578f1d599edb87462f11113c5b0fc7a04ac61
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43768fa80fd192558737e24ed6548f74554611d7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad149f5585345e383baa65f1539d816cd715fd3b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1aa7c509aa766080db7ab3aec2e31b1df09e57c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa5bfdf6cb5846a00e712d630a43e3cf55ccb411
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