Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.124.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-13611777
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

CVE-2023-53288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.55.124.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel 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/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe

When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed. This fixes the following kmemleak report:

drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm] drm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm] __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper] drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper] drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm] ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast] local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180 work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0 process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540 worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0 kthread+0x29f/0x340 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

CVSS Base Scores

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