Resource Leak Affecting perf 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-PERF-7204399
  • published 4 Jun 2024
  • disclosed 30 May 2024

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 perf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf 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:

ALSA: hda: intel-sdw-acpi: fix usage of device_get_named_child_node()

The documentation for device_get_named_child_node() mentions this important point:

" The caller is responsible for calling fwnode_handle_put() on the returned fwnode pointer. "

Add fwnode_handle_put() to avoid a leaked reference.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

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

3.3 low