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CVE-2024-53202

firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

Published: 12/27/2024 Last updated: 10/1/2025 Reserved: 11/19/2024

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.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 5.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (4)

Product Vendor Version
Linux Linux n/a
Linux Linux 7.0.1
Linux Linux All versions < V8.83
Linux Linux < 7.45

References (8)