CVE-2024-38554

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6bad

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-06-19

Updated: 2024-08-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium