Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception Affecting kernel-doc 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-KERNELDOC-6486331
  • published26 Mar 2024
  • disclosed25 Mar 2024

Introduced: 25 Mar 2024

CVE-2021-47177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-460  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

iommu/vt-d: Fix sysfs leak in alloc_iommu()

iommu_device_sysfs_add() is called before, so is has to be cleaned on subsequent errors.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1