CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-36890

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-30 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-05-30
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
Weaknesses
CWE-763

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show(). 171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i); 172 if (IS_ERR(label)) { 173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n"); 174 continue; 175 } The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well, otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.79 < 6.1.91) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.6.31) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.10) • linux linux kernel 6.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference weakness

References