vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-27077: kernel: media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity

The entity->name (i.e. name) is allocated in v4l2_m2m_register_entity
but isn't freed in its following error-handling paths. This patch
adds such deallocation to prevent memleak of entity->name.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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