<p>Upgrade <code>RHEL:8</code> <code>kernel-tools</code> to version 0:4.18.0-348.el8 or higher.<br>This issue was patched in <code>RHSA-2021:4356</code>.</p>

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kernel-tools package, versions <0:4.18.0-348.el8

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0.04% (14^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLS-4143133
published 26 Jul 2021
disclosed 11 Sep 2020

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Introduced: 11 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-36312 Open this link in a new tab CWE-772 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-tools to version 0:4.18.0-348.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:4356.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvm_main.c has a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Local
Attack Complexity (AC)

Low
Privileges Required (PR)

Low
User Interaction (UI)

None

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

None
Integrity (I)

None
Availability (A)

High

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kernel-tools package, versions <0:4.18.0-348.el8

Severity

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating