Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.125.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSOURCE-7462237
  • published17 Jul 2024
  • disclosed16 Jul 2024

Introduced: 16 Jul 2024

CVE-2023-52670  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-source to version 5.14.21-150400.24.125.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

rpmsg: virtio: Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove()

Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove(), otherwise the following memory leak will occur:

unreferenced object 0xffff0000d55d7080 (size 128): comm "kworker/u8:2", pid 56, jiffies 4294893188 (age 214.272s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 72 70 6d 73 67 5f 6e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 rpmsg_ns........ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000009c94c9c1>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1f8/0x320 [<000000002300d89b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x70 [<00000000228a60c3>] kstrndup+0x4c/0x90 [<0000000077158695>] driver_set_override+0xd0/0x164 [<000000003e9c4ea5>] rpmsg_register_device_override+0x98/0x170 [<000000001c0c89a8>] rpmsg_ns_register_device+0x24/0x30 [<000000008bbf8fa2>] rpmsg_probe+0x2e0/0x3ec [<00000000e65a68df>] virtio_dev_probe+0x1c0/0x280 [<00000000443331cc>] really_probe+0xbc/0x2dc [<00000000391064b1>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0xe0 [<00000000a41c9a5b>] driver_probe_device+0xd8/0x160 [<000000009c3bd5df>] __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0x140 [<0000000043cd7614>] bus_for_each_drv+0x7c/0xd4 [<000000003b929a36>] __device_attach+0x9c/0x19c [<00000000a94e0ba8>] device_initial_probe+0x14/0x20 [<000000003c999637>] bus_probe_device+0xa0/0xac

CVSS Base Scores

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