CVE-2024-44971
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register() bcm_sf2_mdio_register() calls of_phy_find_device() and then phy_device_remove() in a loop to remove existing PHY devices. of_phy_find_device() eventually calls bus_find_device(), which calls get_device() on the returned struct device * to increment the refcount. The current implementation does not decrement the refcount, which causes memory leak. This commit adds the missing phy_device_free() call to decrement the refcount via put_device() to balance the refcount.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- Published
- 2024-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-05-11
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Affected products
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7feef10768ea71d468d9bbc1e0d14c461876768c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d2808d67570e6acae45c2a96e0d59986888e4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7b8d9f5e679af60c94251fd6728dde34be69a71
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c05516c072903f6fb9134b8e7e1ad4bffcdc4819
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3862093ee93fcfbdadcb7957f5f8974fffa806a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3d5efe18a11f94150fee8b3fda9d62079af640a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
