Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.14.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-7551339
  • published23 Jul 2024
  • disclosed22 Jul 2024

Introduced: 22 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-35926  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-default-livepatch to version 6.4.0-150600.23.14.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

crypto: iaa - Fix async_disable descriptor leak

The disable_async paths of iaa_compress/decompress() don't free idxd descriptors in the async_disable case. Currently this only happens in the testcases where req->dst is set to null. Add a test to free them in those paths.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1