Memory Leak Affecting kernel-devel-matched package, versions <0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELDEVELMATCHED-9931269
  • published2 May 2025
  • disclosed1 May 2025

Introduced: 1 May 2025

CVE-2022-49860  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:9 kernel-devel-matched to version 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel-matched package and not the kernel-devel-matched package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

dmaengine: ti: k3-udma-glue: fix memory leak when register device fail

If device_register() fails, it should call put_device() to give up reference, the name allocated in dev_set_name() can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1