Memory Leak Affecting kernel-uek-container package, versions <0:5.4.17-2136.344.4.1.el7uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-KERNELUEKCONTAINER-10345505
  • published12 Jun 2025
  • disclosed16 Apr 2025

Introduced: 16 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-22071  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 kernel-uek-container to version 0:5.4.17-2136.344.4.1.el7uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-20372.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-container package and not the kernel-uek-container package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context()

Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1