vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-43871: kernel: devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu() (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 21, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 21, 2024
Added
Sep 25, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()
It will cause memory leakage when use driver API devm_free_percpu()
to free memory allocated by devm_alloc_percpu(), fixed by using
devres_release() instead of devres_destroy() within devm_free_percpu().
Solutions
redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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