Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.43.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSOURCEAZURE-10664967
  • published9 Jul 2025
  • disclosed8 Jul 2025

Introduced: 8 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2024-26831  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-source-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.43.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

net/handshake: Fix handshake_req_destroy_test1

Recently, handshake_req_destroy_test1 started failing:

Expected handshake_req_destroy_test == req, but handshake_req_destroy_test == 0000000000000000 req == 0000000060f99b40 not ok 11 req_destroy works

This is because "sock_release(sock)" was replaced with "fput(filp)" to address a memory leak. Note that sock_release() is synchronous but fput() usually delays the final close and clean-up.

The delay is not consequential in the other cases that were changed but handshake_req_destroy_test1 is testing that handshake_req_cancel() followed by closing the file actually does call the ->hp_destroy method. Thus the PTR_EQ test at the end has to be sure that the final close is complete before it checks the pointer.

We cannot use a completion here because if ->hp_destroy is never called (ie, there is an API bug) then the test will hang.

Reported by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

CVSS Base Scores

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