Memory Leak Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.164.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELMACROS-7364856
  • published25 Jun 2024
  • disclosed24 Jun 2024

Introduced: 24 Jun 2024

CVE-2021-47320  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-macros 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-macros package and not the kernel-macros 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:

nfs: fix acl memory leak of posix_acl_create()

When looking into another nfs xfstests report, I found acl and default_acl in nfs3_proc_create() and nfs3_proc_mknod() error paths are possibly leaked. Fix them in advance.

CVSS Scores

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