Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.31.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCE-15271279
  • published12 Feb 2026
  • disclosed11 Feb 2026

Introduced: 11 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-71114  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150700.53.31.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

via_wdt: fix critical boot hang due to unnamed resource allocation

The VIA watchdog driver uses allocate_resource() to reserve a MMIO region for the watchdog control register. However, the allocated resource was not given a name, which causes the kernel resource tree to contain an entry marked as "<BAD>" under /proc/iomem on x86 platforms.

During boot, this unnamed resource can lead to a critical hang because subsequent resource lookups and conflict checks fail to handle the invalid entry properly.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1