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


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-7240152
  • published 10 Jun 2024
  • disclosed 21 May 2024

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:

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
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Red Hat

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