Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.158.1.150300.18.92.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-7722438
  • published20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed3 May 2024

Introduced: 3 May 2024

CVE-2021-47177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default-base to version 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1.150300.18.92.5 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:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

iommu/vt-d: Fix sysfs leak in alloc_iommu()

iommu_device_sysfs_add() is called before, so is has to be cleaned on subsequent errors.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1