Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.207.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-10381124
  • published18 Jun 2025
  • disclosed17 Jun 2025

Introduced: 17 Jun 2025

CVE-2022-49881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default-livepatch to version 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-livepatch package and not the kernel-default-livepatch 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:

wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file()

In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1