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Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-default-livepatch  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-13024416
  • published24 Sept 2025
  • disclosed23 Sept 2025
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Introduced: 23 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-38546  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.4.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-livepatch package and not the kernel-default-livepatch package as distributed by SLES.

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

atm: clip: Fix memory leak of struct clip_vcc.

ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) allocates struct clip_vcc and set it to vcc->user_back.

The code assumes that vcc_destroy_socket() passes NULL skb to vcc->push() when the socket is close()d, and then clip_push() frees clip_vcc.

However, ioctl(ATMARPD_CTRL) sets NULL to vcc->push() in atm_init_atmarp(), resulting in memory leak.

Let's serialise two ioctl() by lock_sock() and check vcc->push() in atm_init_atmarp() to prevent memleak.

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