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Red Hat: CVE-2024-36954: kernel: tipc: fix a possible memleak in tipc_buf_append (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 30, 2024
Added
Aug 12, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

tipc: fix a possible memleak in tipc_buf_append

__skb_linearize() doesn't free the skb when it fails, so move
'*buf = NULL' after __skb_linearize(), so that the skb can be
freed on the err path.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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