Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <4.12.14-197.34.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.99% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-3254971
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Mar 2020

Introduced: 2 Mar 2020

CVE-2019-20096  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-default-base to version 4.12.14-197.34.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1