CVE-2024-26655 (GCVE-0-2024-26655)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-01 14:58 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:01
VLAI
Title
Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open() If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the pccontext we allocated for this clock. Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:53 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 63cb05f600940a3b4824509e7e0e909f040c82ee , < f845cfa1a5ae697782bfcb843c9d06d3bc0cbbb6 (git)
Affected: a006fc4485159dc9bc3c4156f433f62b9c2b709c , < 62a5adf57b56ee94075c889abea518b9dc66895d (git)
Affected: 72ba2204a2a71b6f25873f20eb9329e1e7a01d03 , < 375abf52353ca5e1a2e5f763629a870f91d0c38a (git)
Affected: 221e4d1e29bb442ac4c47bc8ee095abf009ee8f3 , < ea2d9bfd422e92fd197f6a0b1fe7d81413b871e0 (git)
Affected: 60c6946675fc06dd2fd2b7a4b6fd1c1f046f1056 , < a88649b49523e8cbe95254440d803e38c19d2341 (git)
Affected: 60c6946675fc06dd2fd2b7a4b6fd1c1f046f1056 , < 0200dd7ed2335469955d7e69cc1a6fa7df1f3847 (git)
Affected: 60c6946675fc06dd2fd2b7a4b6fd1c1f046f1056 , < 5b4cdd9c5676559b8a7c944ac5269b914b8c0bb8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.12 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.3 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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