vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-56741: ELSA-2025-20095: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 29, 2024
Added
Feb 11, 2025
Modified
Feb 25, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup()
The string allocated by kmemdup() in aa_unpack_strdup() is not
freed and cause following memory leaks, free them to fix it.
unreferenced object 0xffffff80c6af8a50 (size 8):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 225, jiffies 4294894407
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 00 testing.
backtrace (crc 5eab668b):
[<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
[<000000006e6c7776>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x300/0x3e0
[<000000006870467c>] kmemdup_noprof+0x34/0x60
[<000000001176bb03>] aa_unpack_strdup+0xd0/0x18c
[<000000008ecde918>] policy_unpack_test_unpack_strdup_with_null_name+0xf8/0x3ec
[<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
[<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
[<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
[<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffffff80c2a29090 (size 8):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 227, jiffies 4294894409
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 00 testing.
backtrace (crc 5eab668b):
[<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
[<000000006e6c7776>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x300/0x3e0
[<000000006870467c>] kmemdup_noprof+0x34/0x60
[<000000001176bb03>] aa_unpack_strdup+0xd0/0x18c
[<0000000046a45c1a>] policy_unpack_test_unpack_strdup_with_name+0xd0/0x3c4
[<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
[<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
[<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
[<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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