Memory Leak Affecting kernel-rt-debug-devel-matched package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Memory Leak vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTDEBUGDEVELMATCHED-8451058
  • published3 Dec 2024
  • disclosed2 Dec 2024

Introduced: 2 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-53118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-debug-devel-matched.

NVD Description

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

vsock: Fix sk_error_queue memory leak

Kernel queues MSG_ZEROCOPY completion notifications on the error queue. Where they remain, until explicitly recv()ed. To prevent memory leaks, clean up the queue when the socket is destroyed.

unreferenced object 0xffff8881028beb00 (size 224): comm "vsock_test", pid 1218, jiffies 4294694897 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 90 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff 90 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff ..!.......!..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff ..........!..... backtrace (crc 6c7031ca): [<ffffffff81418ef7>] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2f7/0x370 [<ffffffff81d35882>] __alloc_skb+0x132/0x180 [<ffffffff81d2d32b>] sock_omalloc+0x4b/0x80 [<ffffffff81d3a8ae>] msg_zerocopy_realloc+0x9e/0x240 [<ffffffff81fe5cb2>] virtio_transport_send_pkt_info+0x412/0x4c0 [<ffffffff81fe6183>] virtio_transport_stream_enqueue+0x43/0x50 [<ffffffff81fe0813>] vsock_connectible_sendmsg+0x373/0x450 [<ffffffff81d233d5>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x365/0x3a0 [<ffffffff81d246f4>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x84/0xd0 [<ffffffff81d26f47>] __sys_sendmsg+0x47/0x80 [<ffffffff820d3df3>] do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180 [<ffffffff8220012b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

CVSS Scores

version 3.1