CVE-2024-53202 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.33.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMS-8647146
  • published18 Jan 2025
  • disclosed17 Jan 2025

Introduced: 17 Jan 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150600.23.33.1 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:

firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be resource leak here.

To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails.

CVSS Scores

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