Tracker / CVE-2024-42138
CVE-2024-42138
High 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: core_linecards: Fix double memory deallocation in case of invalid INI file In case of invalid INI file mlxsw_linecard_types_init() deallocates memory but doesn't reset pointer to NULL and returns 0. In case of any error occurred after mlxsw_linecard_types_init() call, mlxsw_linecards_init() calls mlxsw_linecard_types_fini() which performs memory deallocation again. Add pointer reset to NULL. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.19 → 6.1.98 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.39 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.9.9 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.