Memory Leak Affecting kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-150_35-default package, versions <1-1.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELLIVEPATCH4121415035DEFAULT-2733258
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2019

Introduced: 20 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15921  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-150_35-default to version 1-1.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-150_35-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-4_12_14-150_35-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. There is a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1