CVE-2024-41069 (GCVE-0-2024-41069)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-29 14:57
Modified
2026-08-05 11:35
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: topology: Fix references to freed memory Most users after parsing a topology file, release memory used by it, so having pointer references directly into topology file contents is wrong. Use devm_kmemdup(), to allocate memory as needed.
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Linux Linux Version: 7df04ea7a31eaa75bdad2905f07cc097b15558ee
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