CVE-2024-26655 (GCVE-0-2024-26655)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-01 14:58
Modified
2026-05-11 20:01
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open() If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the pccontext we allocated for this clock. Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious.
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Linux Linux Version: 63cb05f600940a3b4824509e7e0e909f040c82ee
Version: a006fc4485159dc9bc3c4156f433f62b9c2b709c
Version: 72ba2204a2a71b6f25873f20eb9329e1e7a01d03
Version: 221e4d1e29bb442ac4c47bc8ee095abf009ee8f3
Version: 60c6946675fc06dd2fd2b7a4b6fd1c1f046f1056
Version: 60c6946675fc06dd2fd2b7a4b6fd1c1f046f1056
Version: 60c6946675fc06dd2fd2b7a4b6fd1c1f046f1056
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