Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bpftool  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-BPFTOOL-8260627
  • published23 Oct 2024
  • disclosed21 Oct 2024

Introduced: 21 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-50064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by RHEL.

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

zram: free secondary algorithms names

We need to kfree() secondary algorithms names when reset zram device that had multi-streams, otherwise we leak memory.

[senozhatsky@chromium.org: kfree(NULL) is legal]