Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.7.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEFAULT-7713853
  • published20 Aug 2024
  • disclosed25 Jun 2024

Introduced: 25 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-26900  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-default to version 6.4.0-150600.23.7.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default package and not the kernel-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial

If kobject_add() is fail in bind_rdev_to_array(), 'rdev->serial' will be alloc not be freed, and kmemleak occurs.

unreferenced object 0xffff88815a350000 (size 49152): comm "mdadm", pid 789, jiffies 4294716910 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc f773277a): [<0000000058b0a453>] kmemleak_alloc+0x61/0xe0 [<00000000366adf14>] __kmalloc_large_node+0x15e/0x270 [<000000002e82961b>] __kmalloc_node.cold+0x11/0x7f [<00000000f206d60a>] kvmalloc_node+0x74/0x150 [<0000000034bf3363>] rdev_init_serial+0x67/0x170 [<0000000010e08fe9>] mddev_create_serial_pool+0x62/0x220 [<00000000c3837bf0>] bind_rdev_to_array+0x2af/0x630 [<0000000073c28560>] md_add_new_disk+0x400/0x9f0 [<00000000770e30ff>] md_ioctl+0x15bf/0x1c10 [<000000006cfab718>] blkdev_ioctl+0x191/0x3f0 [<0000000085086a11>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x60 [<0000000018b656fe>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xe0 [<00000000e54e675e>] do_syscall_64+0x71/0x150 [<000000008b0ad622>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74

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