Resource Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-64k-debug  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNEL64KDEBUG-7088810
  • published24 May 2024
  • disclosed21 May 2024

Introduced: 21 May 2024

CVE-2021-47236  (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 kernel-64k-debug package and not the kernel-64k-debug package as distributed by RHEL.

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

net: cdc_eem: fix tx fixup skb leak

when usbnet transmit a skb, eem fixup it in eem_tx_fixup(), if skb_copy_expand() failed, it return NULL, usbnet_start_xmit() will have no chance to free original skb.

fix it by free orginal skb in eem_tx_fixup() first, then check skb clone status, if failed, return NULL to usbnet.