Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.128.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULT-7691273
  • published16 Aug 2024
  • disclosed15 Aug 2024

Introduced: 15 Aug 2024

CVE-2022-48775  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default to version 5.14.21-150400.24.128.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add():

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

CVSS Scores

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