CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-26824

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-04-17 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-04-17
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: algif_hash - Remove bogus SGL free on zero-length error path When a zero-length message is hashed by algif_hash, and an error is triggered, it tries to free an SG list that was never allocated in the first place. Fix this by not freeing the SG list on the zero-length error path.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.6.18) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.6) • linux linux kernel 6.8

References