Memory Leak Affecting kernel-macros 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
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-9698890
  • published15 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Apr 2025

Introduced: 14 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2022-49370  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1