CVE-2024-27078

medium

Published 2024-05-01 · Modified 2026-05-12

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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-tpg: fix some memleaks in tpg_alloc In tpg_alloc, resources should be deallocated in each and every error-handling paths, since they are allocated in for statements. Otherwise there would be memleaks because tpg_free is called only when tpg_alloc return 0.

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.85-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.216-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.7.12-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.7.12-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.7.12-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`4.19.311`

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.