Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bpftool  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-BPFTOOL-8817020
  • published28 Feb 2025
  • disclosed21 Oct 2024

Introduced: 21 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-50064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Centos.

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

zram: free secondary algorithms names

We need to kfree() secondary algorithms names when reset zram device that had multi-streams, otherwise we leak memory.

[senozhatsky@chromium.org: kfree(NULL) is legal]