CVE-2024-57841 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.1OSV6.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 15
Latest updateMay 29
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fix memory leak in tcp_conn_request()
If inet_csk_reqsk_queue_hash_add() return false, tcp_conn_request() will
return without free the dst memory, which allocated in af_ops->route_req.
Here is the kmemleak stack:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881198631c0 (size 240):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4299266571 (age 1802.392s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 10 9b 03 81 88 ff ff 80 98 da bc ff ff ff ff ................
81 55 18 …
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/linux527bec1f56ac7a2fceb8eb77eb0fc2678ecba394 — 9d38959677291552d1b0ed2689a540af279b5bf8+6