CVE-2024-26734 (GCVE-0-2024-26734)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-03 17:00
Modified
2026-08-05 11:26
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: devlink: fix possible use-after-free and memory leaks in devlink_init() The pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered before registering the generic netlink family. Make an unregister in case of unsuccessful registration.
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