CVE-2024-53202

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info() The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be resource leak here. To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2024-12-27

Last modified

2026-05-11

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369a9c046c2fdfe037f05b43b84c386bdbccc103
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789a72498d32f88d24371c10985aceb46397056c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb5d67d00ad17a5bd0920f455160dc2ccbd2dc78
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f380f895dbb2a11d62ca6df9e82d995f4bc26b84