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CVE-2024-40997 (GCVE-0-2024-40997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:24
VLAI
Title
cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
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 17:01 UTC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ffa5096a7c338641f70fb06d4778e8cf400181a8 , < 448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cd (git)
Affected: ffa5096a7c338641f70fb06d4778e8cf400181a8 , < 8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582 (git)
Affected: ffa5096a7c338641f70fb06d4778e8cf400181a8 , < cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.36 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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