CVE-2024-36945 (GCVE-0-2024-36945)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-30 15:35
Modified
2026-08-05 11:32
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: fix neighbour and rtable leak in smc_ib_find_route() In smc_ib_find_route(), the neighbour found by neigh_lookup() and rtable resolved by ip_route_output_flow() are not released or put before return. It may cause the refcount leak, so fix it.
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Linux Linux Version: e5c4744cfb598f98672f8d21d59ef2c1fa9c9b5f
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