Memory Leak Affecting kernel-tools-libs package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-7262412
  • published15 Jun 2024
  • disclosed25 Mar 2024

Introduced: 25 Mar 2024

CVE-2021-47171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-tools-libs to version 0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:3618.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind

Syzbot reported memory leak in smsc75xx_bind(). The problem was is non-freed memory in case of errors after memory allocation.

backtrace: [<ffffffff84245b62>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:556 [inline] [<ffffffff84245b62>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:686 [inline] [<ffffffff84245b62>] smsc75xx_bind+0x7a/0x334 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1460 [<ffffffff82b5b2e6>] usbnet_probe+0x3b6/0xc30 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1728

CVSS Scores

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