Resource Leak Affecting kernel-tools-libs package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-7800646
- published 22 Aug 2024
- disclosed 21 Aug 2024
Introduced: 21 Aug 2024
CVE-2022-48896 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools-libs.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs 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:
ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak
As the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put().
In ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(), pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48896
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/112df4cd2b09acd64bcd18f5ef83ba5d07b34bf0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c93422a54cd6a349988f42e1c6bf082cf4ea9d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53cefa802f070d46c0c518f4865be2c749818a18
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b93fb4405fcb5112c5739c5349afb52ec7f15c07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c49996c6aa03590e4ef5add8772cb6068d99fd59