CVE-2024-38563 (GCVE-0-2024-38563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 13:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:19
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Title
wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix potential memory leakage when reading chip temperature
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix potential memory leakage when reading chip temperature Without this commit, reading chip temperature will cause memory leakage.
Severity
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Assigner
References
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Linux Linux Affected: 6879b2e94172ed80394dd49d410814ad427d1ca0 , < 84e81f9b4818b8efe89beb12a246d5d510631939 (git)
Affected: 6879b2e94172ed80394dd49d410814ad427d1ca0 , < ef46dbb93fc9279fb7de883aac22abffe214e6b5 (git)
Affected: 6879b2e94172ed80394dd49d410814ad427d1ca0 , < 474b9412f33be87076b40a49756662594598a85e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.12 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.3 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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