CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40997
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- 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-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit
The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is
not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that.
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.6.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cd Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cd Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81 Mailing List, Patch