Memory Leak Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.100.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEVEL-9693289
  • published15 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Apr 2025

Introduced: 14 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2021-47644  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-devel 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-devel package and not the kernel-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:

media: staging: media: zoran: move videodev alloc

Move some code out of zr36057_init() and create new functions for handling zr->video_dev. This permit to ease code reading and fix a zr->video_dev memory leak.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1