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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTDEBUGDEVELMATCHED-9928322
  • published2 May 2025
  • disclosed1 May 2025

Introduced: 1 May 2025

CVE-2022-49807  (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:

nvmet: fix a memory leak in nvmet_auth_set_key

When changing dhchap secrets we need to release the old secrets as well.

kmemleak complaint:

unreferenced object 0xffff8c7f44ed8180 (size 64): comm "check", pid 7304, jiffies 4295686133 (age 72034.246s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 4c 64 4c 4f 64 71 DHHC-1:00:LdLOdq 79 56 69 67 77 48 55 32 6d 5a 59 4c 7a 35 59 38 yVigwHU2mZYLz5Y8 backtrace: [<00000000b6fc5071>] kstrdup+0x2e/0x60 [<00000000f0f4633f>] 0xffffffffc0e07ee6 [<0000000053006c05>] 0xffffffffc0dff783 [<00000000419ae922>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120 [<000000008183c424>] vfs_write+0x2be/0x3c0 [<000000009005a2a5>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<00000000cd495c89>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [<00000000f2a84ac5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

CVSS Base Scores

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