Resource Leak Affecting kernel-debug package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-KERNELDEBUG-7040526
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed22 May 2024

Introduced: 22 May 2024

CVE-2021-47466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 kernel-debug.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug package and not the kernel-debug package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

mm, slub: fix potential memoryleak in kmem_cache_open()

In error path, the random_seq of slub cache might be leaked. Fix this by using __kmem_cache_release() to release all the relevant resources.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1