Memory Leak Affecting kernel-preempt package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.158.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELPREEMPT-7720709
  • published20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed3 May 2024

Introduced: 3 May 2024

CVE-2021-46944  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-preempt to version 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix memory leak in imu_fmt

We are losing the reference to an allocated memory if try. Change the order of the check to avoid that.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1