CVE-2024-53202 (GCVE-0-2024-53202)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 13:49 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:52
VLAI
Title
firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info() The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be resource leak here. To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 20:03 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 02fe26f25325b547b7a31a65deb0326c04bb5174 , < 789a72498d32f88d24371c10985aceb46397056c (git)
Affected: 02fe26f25325b547b7a31a65deb0326c04bb5174 , < eb5d67d00ad17a5bd0920f455160dc2ccbd2dc78 (git)
Affected: 02fe26f25325b547b7a31a65deb0326c04bb5174 , < f380f895dbb2a11d62ca6df9e82d995f4bc26b84 (git)
Affected: 02fe26f25325b547b7a31a65deb0326c04bb5174 , < 369a9c046c2fdfe037f05b43b84c386bdbccc103 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.64 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.11 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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