Memory Leak Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.133.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELMACROS-8089968
  • published25 Sept 2024
  • disclosed24 Sept 2024

Introduced: 24 Sep 2024

CVE-2022-48907  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150400.24.133.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

auxdisplay: lcd2s: Fix memory leak in ->remove()

Once allocated the struct lcd2s_data is never freed. Fix the memory leak by switching to devm_kzalloc().

CVSS Scores

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