Memory Leak Affecting kernel-64k-devel package, versions <0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNEL64KDEVEL-11506162
  • published7 Aug 2025
  • disclosed2 May 2025

Introduced: 2 May 2025

CVE-2023-53096  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-64k-devel to version 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:6583.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64k-devel package and not the kernel-64k-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes

The node link array is allocated when adding links to a node but is not deallocated when nodes are destroyed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1