CVE-2024-36942 Affecting kernel-syms-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMSAZURE-7680734
  • published14 Aug 2024
  • disclosed13 Aug 2024

Introduced: 13 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-36942  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms-azure package and not the kernel-syms-azure 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:

Bluetooth: qca: fix firmware check error path

A recent commit fixed the code that parses the firmware files before downloading them to the controller but introduced a memory leak in case the sanity checks ever fail.

Make sure to free the firmware buffer before returning on errors.

CVSS Scores

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