Double Free Affecting kernel-rt-debug package, versions <0:5.14.0-427.60.1.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTDEBUG-9484722
  • published19 Mar 2025
  • disclosed17 May 2024

Introduced: 17 May 2024

CVE-2024-35835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-rt-debug to version 0:5.14.0-427.60.1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:3021.

NVD Description

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

net/mlx5e: fix a double-free in arfs_create_groups

When in allocated by kvzalloc fails, arfs_create_groups will free ft->g and return an error. However, arfs_create_table, the only caller of arfs_create_groups, will hold this error and call to mlx5e_destroy_flow_table, in which the ft->g will be freed again.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1