Memory Leak Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.34.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELMACROS-15852610
  • published31 Mar 2026
  • disclosed26 Mar 2026

Introduced: 26 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-23023  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-macros to version 6.4.0-150700.53.34.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

idpf: fix memory leak in idpf_vport_rel()

Free vport->rx_ptype_lkup in idpf_vport_rel() to avoid leaking memory during a reset. Reported by kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xff450acac838a000 (size 4096): comm "kworker/u258:5", pid 7732, jiffies 4296830044 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 3da81902): __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x469/0x7a0 idpf_send_get_rx_ptype_msg+0x90/0x570 [idpf] idpf_init_task+0x1ec/0x8d0 [idpf] process_one_work+0x226/0x6d0 worker_thread+0x19e/0x340 kthread+0x10f/0x250 ret_from_fork+0x251/0x2b0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1