CVE-2024-56546 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 27
Latest updateMay 26
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: soc: xilinx: add the missing kfree in xlnx_add_cb_for_suspend()
If we fail to allocate memory for cb_data by kmalloc, the memory
allocation for eve_data is never freed, add the missing kfree()
in the error handling path.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux05e5ba40ea7ab6a99bb8d6117c899d0e13ca8700 — 272168927f38bda46f6c1ed5f40de97689e7a5d2+5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
14OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracl↗2025-04-23