Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception Affecting kernel-rt-trace-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-1160.6.1.rt56.1139.el7


Severity

medium

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTTRACEDEVEL-2178363
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 19 Mar 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-rt-trace-devel to version 0:3.10.0-1160.6.1.rt56.1139.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. In rx_queue_add_kobject() and netdev_queue_add_kobject() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, a reference count is mishandled, aka CID-a3e23f719f5c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

3.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.5 medium
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SUSE

5.5 medium
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Red Hat

3.3 low