Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.179.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-13622527
  • published18 Oct 2025
  • disclosed17 Oct 2025

Introduced: 17 Oct 2025

CVE-2022-50355  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default-livepatch to version 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1 or higher.

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. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

staging: vt6655: fix some erroneous memory clean-up loops

In some initialization functions of this driver, memory is allocated with 'i' acting as an index variable and increasing from 0. The commit in "Fixes" introduces some clean-up codes in case of allocation failure, which free memory in reverse order with 'i' decreasing to 0. However, there are some problems:

  • The case i=0 is left out. Thus memory is leaked.
  • In case memory allocation fails right from the start, the memory freeing loops will start with i=-1 and invalid memory locations will be accessed.

One of these loops has been fixed in commit c8ff91535880 ("staging: vt6655: fix potential memory leak"). Fix the remaining erroneous loops.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1