Resource Leak Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEVEL-8321807
  • published1 Nov 2024
  • disclosed21 Aug 2024

Introduced: 21 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-43871  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-devel to version 0:4.14.353-270.569.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2658.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-devel package and not the kernel-tools-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()

It will cause memory leakage when use driver API devm_free_percpu() to free memory allocated by devm_alloc_percpu(), fixed by using devres_release() instead of devres_destroy() within devm_free_percpu().

CVSS Scores

version 3.1