Resource Leak Affecting kernel-rt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRT-7240141
  • published10 Jun 2024
  • disclosed21 May 2024

Introduced: 21 May 2024

CVE-2021-47313  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-rt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt package and not the kernel-rt package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppc_cpufreq_cpu_init

It's a classic example of memleak, we allocate something, we fail and never free the resources.

Make sure we free all resources on policy ->init() failures.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1