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FKIE_CVE-2024-40997

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-12 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:47
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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 ]
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cdMailing List, Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582Mailing List, Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cdMailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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