Resource Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELMODULESINTERNAL-7474139
  • published17 Jul 2024
  • disclosed12 Jul 2024

Introduced: 12 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-40936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-402  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-internal package and not the kernel-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.

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

cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region()

Move the mode verification to __create_region() before allocating the memregion to avoid the memregion leaks.