Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published12 Feb 2022
- disclosed25 Jan 2022
Introduced: 25 Jan 2022
CVE-2022-24959 (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-rt-debug-modules-extra package and not the kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24959
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.5
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/29eb31542787e1019208a2e1047bb7c76c069536
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096