Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.3.18-59.5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELSOURCE-2680660
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Jun 2021

Introduced: 15 Jun 2021

CVE-2020-36312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-source to version 5.3.18-59.5.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvm_main.c has a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1