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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 17, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 1, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: processor_idle: Fix memory leak in acpi_processor_power_exit()

After unregistering the CPU idle device, the memory associated with
it is not freed, leading to a memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff896282f6c000 (size 1024):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294893170
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 8836a742):
[] kmalloc_trace+0x29d/0x340
[] acpi_processor_power_init+0xf3/0x1c0
[] __acpi_processor_start+0xd3/0xf0
[] acpi_processor_start+0x2c/0x50
[] really_probe+0xe2/0x480
[] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160
[] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[] __driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0
[] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0
[] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210
[] driver_register+0x55/0x100
[] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x3b/0xc0
[] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x300
[] kernel_init_freeable+0x320/0x470
[] kernel_init+0x16/0x1b0
[] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50

Fix this by freeing the CPU idle device after unregistering it.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 17, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 17, 2024
Last updated Nov 1, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.044%
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-26894

GHSA ID

GHSA-xfq9-hwv6-6j67

Source code

No known source code

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