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Resource Leak Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-6454519
  • published 27 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 15 Mar 2024
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Introduced: 15 Mar 2024

CVE-2021-47116 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-402 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools-libs-devel.

NVD Description

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

ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path.

Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

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