Resource Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bpftool  (opens in a new tab)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-9443227
  • published15 Mar 2025
  • disclosed12 Jul 2024

Introduced: 12 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-40936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (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:

cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region()

Move the mode verification to __create_region() before allocating the memregion to avoid the memregion leaks.