Resource Leak Affecting kernel-abi-stablelists package, versions <0:5.14.0-427.55.1.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELABISTABLELISTS-8736609
  • published19 Feb 2025
  • disclosed30 May 2024

Introduced: 30 May 2024

CVE-2024-36954  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-abi-stablelists to version 0:5.14.0-427.55.1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:1658.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-stablelists package and not the kernel-abi-stablelists 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:

tipc: fix a possible memleak in tipc_buf_append

__skb_linearize() doesn't free the skb when it fails, so move '*buf = NULL' after __skb_linearize(), so that the skb can be freed on the err path.

CVSS Scores

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