Memory Leak Affecting kernel-core package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-2886016
- published 12 Feb 2022
- disclosed 25 Jan 2022
Introduced: 25 Jan 2022
CVE-2022-24959 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-core.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24959
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.5
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/29eb31542787e1019208a2e1047bb7c76c069536
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
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