fkie_cve-2024-38617
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-06-19 14:15
Modified
2025-10-03 15:54
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kunit/fortify: Fix mismatched kvalloc()/vfree() usage The kv*() family of tests were accidentally freeing with vfree() instead of kvfree(). Use kvfree() instead.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03758d5a0932016b6d5f5bfbca580177e6bc937aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42d21c9727028fe7ee392223ba127484b1b8677ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7880dbf4eafe22a6a41a42e774f1122c814ed02dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/998b18072ceb0613629c256b409f4d299829c7ecPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03758d5a0932016b6d5f5bfbca580177e6bc937aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42d21c9727028fe7ee392223ba127484b1b8677ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7880dbf4eafe22a6a41a42e774f1122c814ed02dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/998b18072ceb0613629c256b409f4d299829c7ecPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *


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