Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-livepatch-devel package, versions <4.12.14-197.18.1


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-SLES151-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCHDEVEL-2754865
  • 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:15.1 kernel-default-livepatch-devel to version 4.12.14-197.18.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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