CVE-2024-38554 (GCVE-0-2024-38554)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-19 13:35
Modified
2026-05-23 15:48
Severity ?
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.
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Linux Linux Version: d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b
Version: d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b
Version: d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b
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Version: ef0a2a0565727a48f2e36a2c461f8b1e3a61922d
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Version: 5ea00fc60676c0eebfa8560ec461209d638bca9d
Version: 9af0fd5c4453a44c692be0cbb3724859b75d739b
Version: 4.14.277   ≤
Version: 4.19.240   ≤
Version: 5.4.190   ≤
Version: 5.10.112   ≤
Version: 5.15.35   ≤
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