Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150700.20.15.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCEAZURE-13617430
  • published18 Oct 2025
  • disclosed17 Oct 2025

Introduced: 17 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-38612  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source-azure to version 6.4.0-150700.20.15.2 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:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

In the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated, the memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info->pagerefs is not freed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1