Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.158.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-9535750
  • published27 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Mar 2025

Introduced: 26 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2022-49671  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default-livepatch to version 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 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:

RDMA/cm: Fix memory leak in ib_cm_insert_listen

cm_alloc_id_priv() allocates resource for the cm_id_priv. When cm_init_listen() fails it doesn't free it, leading to memory leak.

Add the missing error unwind.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1