CVE-2026-72497 Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.81.1.150700.17.45.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-19918079
  • published18 Sept 2026
  • disclosed17 Sept 2026

Introduced: 17 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-default-base to version 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1.150700.17.45.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/bnxt_re: Add a max slot check for SQ

The variable WQE mode must be validated against the maximum slots supported by HW. The max supported value is 64K. Adding a max and min check and fail if user supplied value is more than the max supported and zero.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1