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CVE-2024-53076 (GCVE-0-2024-53076)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:31 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:43
VLAI
Title
iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks for the error path of iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks for the error path of iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table() If per_time_scales[i] or per_time_gains[i] kcalloc fails in the for loop of iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table(), the err_free_out will fail to call kfree() each time when i is reduced to 0, so all the per_time_scales[0] and per_time_gains[0] will not be freed, which will cause memory leaks. Fix it by checking if i >= 0.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 20:12 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 38416c28e16890b52fdd5eb73479299ec3f062f3 , < 62c11896683129790b8f5ab6eb7e695818b0b723 (git)
Affected: 38416c28e16890b52fdd5eb73479299ec3f062f3 , < b304362ce836968b803e5d4c5f84dcb51a7bf0f2 (git)
Affected: 38416c28e16890b52fdd5eb73479299ec3f062f3 , < 369f05688911b05216cfcd6ca74473bec87948d7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.60 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.7 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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