CVE-2024-53202

firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

Medium · published December 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise

there may be resource leak here.

To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc

fails.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00223 · 12.2th percentile
Published
2024-12-27T13:49Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 13:49Z
    firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()
    cvelistv5