Double Free Affecting kernel-rt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRT-7194538
  • published 3 Jun 2024
  • disclosed 30 May 2024

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt package and not the kernel-rt 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:

octeontx2-af: fix the double free in rvu_npc_freemem()

Clang static checker(scan-build) warning: drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c:line 2184, column 2 Attempt to free released memory.

npc_mcam_rsrcs_deinit() has released 'mcam->counters.bmap'. Deleted this redundant kfree() to fix this double free problem.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
Expand this section

Red Hat

4.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
Expand this section

SUSE

7.8 high