FKIE_CVE-2024-38554

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-06-19 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:40
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device There is a reference count leak issue of the object "net_device" in ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause memory leak. In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6badPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981bPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6badPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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