CVE-2024-27077

medium
Published 2024-05-01 ยท Modified 2026-05-12
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity The entity->name (i.e. name) is allocated in v4l2_m2m_register_entity but isn't freed in its following error-handling paths. This patch adds such deallocation to prevent memleak of entity->name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.85-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.216-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.7.12-1
debian debiansidfixed6.7.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.7.12-1
debian debian10.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected4.19.311

References

CWEs

CWE-401

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.