CVE-2024-14027 Affecting libperf-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-LIBPERFDEVEL-15575426
  • published15 Mar 2026
  • disclosed9 Mar 2026

Introduced: 9 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2024-14027  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:9 libperf-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libperf-devel package and not the libperf-devel 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:

fs/xattr: missing fdput() in fremovexattr error path

In the Linux kernel, the fremovexattr() syscall calls fdget() to acquire a file reference but returns early without calling fdput() when strncpy_from_user() fails on the name argument. In multi-threaded processes where fdget() takes the slow path, this permanently leaks one file reference per call, pinning the struct file and associated kernel objects in memory. An unprivileged local user can exploit this to cause kernel memory exhaustion. The issue was inadvertently fixed by commit a71874379ec8 ("xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)").

CVSS Base Scores

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