Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-56572 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: platform: allegro-dvt: Fix possible memory leak in allocate_buffers_internal() The buffer in the loop should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be a memory leak here. To mitigate this, free the buffer when allegro_alloc_buffer fails.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f514068fbc5d4d189c817adc7c4e32cffdc2e47
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17e5613666209be4e5be1f1894f1a6014a8a0658
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64f72a738864b506ab50b4a6cb3ce3c3e04b71af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6712a28a4f923ffdf51cff267ad05a634ee1babc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74a65313578b35e1239966adfa7ac2bdd60caf00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/891b5790bee8fc6ddba17874dd87a646128d0b99
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf642904be39ae0d441dbdfa8f485e0a46260be4