CVE-2024-36973 (GCVE-0-2024-36973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-17 17:51
Modified
2026-08-05 11:32
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: microchip: pci1xxxx: fix double free in the error handling of gp_aux_bus_probe() When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), callback function gp_auxiliary_device_release() calls ida_free() and kfree(aux_device_wrapper) to free memory. We should't call them again in the error handling path. Fix this by skipping the redundant cleanup functions.
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Linux Linux Version: 393fc2f5948fd340d016a9557eea6e1ac2f6c60c
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