Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNEL-6737509
  • published30 Apr 2024
  • disclosed28 Apr 2024

Introduced: 28 Apr 2024

CVE-2022-48641  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

netfilter: ebtables: fix memory leak when blob is malformed

The bug fix was incomplete, it "replaced" crash with a memory leak. The old code had an assignment to "ret" embedded into the conditional, restore this.

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