Memory Leak Affecting kernel-firmware package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELFIRMWARE-6298786
  • published28 Feb 2024
  • disclosed27 Feb 2024

Introduced: 27 Feb 2024

CVE-2021-46944  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 kernel-firmware.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-firmware package and not the kernel-firmware package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix memory leak in imu_fmt

We are losing the reference to an allocated memory if try. Change the order of the check to avoid that.

CVSS Scores

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