CVE-2024-42069CWE-476

CVE-2024-42069

High · published July 29, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: mana: Fix possible double free in error handling path

When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls

auxiliary_device_uninit(), callback function adev_release

calls kfree(madev). We shouldn't call kfree(madev) again

in the error handling path. Set 'madev' to NULL.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00233 · 13.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-07-29T20:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 6.26.2
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.3, < 6.6.376.6.37
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.9.86.9.8
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 JUL 15:52Z
    net: mana: Fix possible double free in error handling path
    cvelistv5