Resource Leak Affecting kernel-debug-uki-virt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELDEBUGUKIVIRT-7786834
  • published22 Aug 2024
  • disclosed21 Aug 2024

Introduced: 21 Aug 2024

CVE-2022-48896  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-debug-uki-virt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-uki-virt package and not the kernel-debug-uki-virt 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:

ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak

As the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put().

In ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(), pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.

CVSS Scores

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