Memory Leak Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default package, versions <5-150400.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELLIVEPATCH5142115040024176DEFAULT-14914743
  • published13 Jan 2026
  • disclosed12 Jan 2026

Introduced: 12 Jan 2026

CVE-2023-53574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default to version 5-150400.2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-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:

wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading

Fix possible crash and memory leak on driver unload by deleting TX purge timer and freeing C2H queue in 'rtw_core_deinit()', shrink critical section in the latter by freeing COEX queue out of TX report lock scope.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1