CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-42069

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-07-29 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-29
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-476

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.2) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.6.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.8)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References