SB2025061305 - SUSE update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 32 for SLE 15 SP4)
Published: June 13, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-49080)
CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the kmem_cache_alloc() function in mm/mempolicy.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-57996)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read error within the sfq_change() function in net/sched/sch_sfq.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.