vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2021-45095: ELSA-2022-9348: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 9, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Jul 21, 2025

Description

pep_sock_accept in net/phonet/pep.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.8 has a refcount leak.
A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's PhoNet (Phone Network protocol) functionality was found in the way user gets memory allocation fail inside function pep_sock_accept (for the failure branch). A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing a denial of service.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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