Memory Leak Affecting kernel-tools-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-7194907
  • published3 Jun 2024
  • disclosed30 May 2024

Introduced: 30 May 2024

CVE-2024-36947  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs 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:

qibfs: fix dentry leak

simple_recursive_removal() drops the pinning references to all positives in subtree. For the cases when its argument has been kept alive by the pinning alone that's exactly the right thing to do, but here the argument comes from dcache lookup, that needs to be balanced by explicit dput().

Fucked-up-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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