Memory Leak Affecting kernel-64kb package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.164.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNEL64KB-7367642
  • published25 Jun 2024
  • disclosed24 Jun 2024

Introduced: 24 Jun 2024

CVE-2021-47473  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-64kb to version 5.3.18-150300.59.164.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb package and not the kernel-64kb package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix a memory leak in an error path of qla2x00_process_els()

Commit 8c0eb596baa5 ("[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix a memory leak in an error path of qla2x00_process_els()"), intended to change:

    bsg_job-&gt;request-&gt;msgcode == FC_BSG_HST_ELS_NOLOGIN


bsg_job-&amp;gt;request-&amp;gt;msgcode != FC_BSG_RPT_ELS

but changed it to:

    bsg_job-&gt;request-&gt;msgcode == FC_BSG_RPT_ELS

instead.

Change the == to a != to avoid leaking the fcport structure or freeing unallocated memory.

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