CVE-2024-50055 (GCVE-0-2024-50055)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-21 19:39
Modified
2026-08-05 11:41
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: driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register() For bus_register(), any error which happens after kset_register() will cause that @priv are freed twice, fixed by setting @priv with NULL after the first free.
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