CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-27078

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-tpg where tpg_alloc had memory leaks. Resources allocated in for loops were not deallocated in error-handling paths, as tpg_free is only called when tpg_alloc returns 0.

Risk Assessment

Memory leaks 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 ensuring resource deallocation in all error-handling paths in tpg_alloc.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l2-tpg: fix some memleaks in tpg_alloc In tpg_alloc, resources should be deallocated in each and every error-handling paths, since they are allocated in for statements. Otherwise there would be memleaks because tpg_free is called only when tpg_alloc return 0.

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