Memory Leak Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.3.18-24.61.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELMACROS-2685432
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed16 Apr 2021

Introduced: 16 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-36312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-macros to version 5.3.18-24.61.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvm_main.c has a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1