Memory Leak Affecting kernel-syms 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
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSYMS-9527205
  • published27 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Mar 2025

Introduced: 26 Mar 2025

CVE-2021-47648  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-syms 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-syms package and not the kernel-syms 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:

gpu: host1x: Fix a memory leak in 'host1x_remove()'

Add a missing 'host1x_channel_list_free()' call in the remove function, as already done in the error handling path of the probe function.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1