Memory Leak Affecting kernel-64kb package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.127.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (5th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNEL64KB-14189028
  • published5 Dec 2025
  • disclosed4 Dec 2025

Introduced: 4 Dec 2025

CVE-2022-50515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-64kb to version 5.14.21-150500.55.127.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb package and not the kernel-64kb package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu: Fix memory leak in hpd_rx_irq_create_workqueue()

If construction of the array of work queues to handle hpd_rx_irq offload work fails, we need to unwind. Destroy all the created workqueues and the allocated memory for the hpd_rx_irq_offload_work_queue struct array.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1