Memory Leak Affecting kernel-debug-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDEBUGDEVEL-8855775
  • published28 Feb 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

CVE-2022-49442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-debug-devel.

NVD Description

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

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

drivers/base/node.c: fix compaction sysfs file leak

Compaction sysfs file is created via compaction_register_node in register_node. But we forgot to remove it in unregister_node. Thus compaction sysfs file is leaked. Using compaction_unregister_node to fix this issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1