Memory Leak Affecting kernel-uki-virt-addons package, versions <0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELUKIVIRTADDONS-8479864
  • published5 Dec 2024
  • disclosed8 Jun 2024

Introduced: 8 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-36967  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-uki-virt-addons to version 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9315.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uki-virt-addons package and not the kernel-uki-virt-addons 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:

KEYS: trusted: Fix memory leak in tpm2_key_encode()

'scratch' is never freed. Fix this by calling kfree() in the success, and in the error case.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1