Memory Leak Affecting cluster-md-kmp-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.179.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-CLUSTERMDKMPDEFAULT-13621329
  • published18 Oct 2025
  • disclosed17 Oct 2025

Introduced: 17 Oct 2025

CVE-2022-50289  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 cluster-md-kmp-default to version 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cluster-md-kmp-default package and not the cluster-md-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init()

ocfs2_table_header should be free in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() if ocfs2_sysfs_init() failed, otherwise kmemleak will report memleak.

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810eeb5800 (size 128): comm "modprobe", pid 4507, jiffies 4296182506 (age 55.888s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): c0 40 14 a0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .@.............. 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000001e59e1cd>] __register_sysctl_table+0xca/0xef0 [<00000000c04f70f7>] 0xffffffffa0050037 [<000000001bd12912>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480 [<0000000064f766c9>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680 [<000000002ba52db0>] load_module+0x6441/0x6f20 [<000000009772580d>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000380c1f22>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<000000004cf473bc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

CVSS Base Scores

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