CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-27077

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was resolved in media: v4l2-mem2mem where v4l2_m2m_register_entity had a memory leak. The allocated entity->name was not freed in error-handling paths.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak can lead to gradual exhaustion of system resources, potentially causing denial of service (DoS) over time.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix adding deallocation of entity->name in error-handling paths.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity The entity->name (i.e. name) is allocated in v4l2_m2m_register_entity but isn't freed in its following error-handling paths. This patch adds such deallocation to prevent memleak of entity->name.

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