Memory Leak Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.110.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELSYMS-10570062
  • published1 Jul 2025
  • disclosed30 Jun 2025

Introduced: 30 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2022-49890  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-syms to version 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms 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:

capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()

In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...), there will be a memleak in below logic:

|-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...) | /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */ |-- value = krealloc(xattr_value, error + 1, flags) | / ^^^ alloc memory / |-- error = handler->get(handler, ...) | / error! */ |-- xattr_value = value | / xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */

So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.

[PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]

CVSS Base Scores

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