Memory Leak Affecting kernel-64kb package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.100.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNEL64KB-9702356
  • published15 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Apr 2025

Introduced: 14 Apr 2025

CVE-2022-49627  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-64kb to version 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 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:

ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()

On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits without freeing the ima_algo_array. Add the missing kfree() for ima_algo_array to avoid the potential memory leak.

CVSS Base Scores

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