Memory Leak Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-7194858
- published 3 Jun 2024
- disclosed 30 May 2024
Introduced: 30 May 2024
CVE-2024-36947 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-doc.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc 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:
qibfs: fix dentry leak
simple_recursive_removal() drops the pinning references to all positives in subtree. For the cases when its argument has been kept alive by the pinning alone that's exactly the right thing to do, but here the argument comes from dcache lookup, that needs to be balanced by explicit dput().
Fucked-up-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36947
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02ee394a5d899d9bd2f0759382e9481cab6166f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24dd9b08df718f20ccf2dd1519909fefd8c233ee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa23317d0268b309bb3f0801ddd0d61813ff5afb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd8f78c71defbcb7a9ed331e7f287507df972b00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db71ca93259dd1078bcfea3afafde2143cfc2da7