CVE-2021-47070 Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_158-default package, versions <1-150300.7.3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELLIVEPATCH531815030059158DEFAULT-7722254
  • published20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed3 May 2024

Introduced: 3 May 2024

CVE-2021-47070  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_158-default to version 1-150300.7.3.5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_158-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_158-default 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:

uio_hv_generic: Fix another memory leak in error handling paths

Memory allocated by 'vmbus_alloc_ring()' at the beginning of the probe function is never freed in the error handling path.

Add the missing 'vmbus_free_ring()' call.

Note that it is already freed in the .remove function.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1