Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150700.20.18.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCEAZURE-14050892
  • published19 Nov 2025
  • disclosed18 Nov 2025

Introduced: 18 Nov 2025

CVE-2023-53546  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source-azure to version 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 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:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net/mlx5: DR, fix memory leak in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx

when mlx5_cmd_exec failed in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx, the memory pointed by 'in' is not released, which will cause memory leak. Move memory release after mlx5_cmd_exec.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1