Memory Leak Affecting perf 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-PERF-7484641
  • published17 Jul 2024
  • disclosed16 Jul 2024

Introduced: 16 Jul 2024

CVE-2022-48860  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 perf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf 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:

ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe

This node pointer is returned by of_parse_phandle() with refcount incremented in this function. Calling of_node_put() to avoid the refcount leak. As the remove function do.

CVSS Scores

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