Memory Leak Affecting kernel-devel-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.23.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEVELAZURE-8631295
  • published16 Jan 2025
  • disclosed15 Jan 2025

Introduced: 15 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-53117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-devel-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.23.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

virtio/vsock: Improve MSG_ZEROCOPY error handling

Add a missing kfree_skb() to prevent memory leaks.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1