Memory Leak Affecting kernel-modules-core package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELMODULESCORE-5532087
  • published12 Feb 2022
  • disclosed25 Jan 2022

Introduced: 25 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-24959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-modules-core.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-core package and not the kernel-modules-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.

CVSS Scores

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