CVE-2024-36890

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free via Error Pointer Handling in __free(kfree)

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show(). 171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i); 172 if (IS_ERR(label)) { 173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n"); 174 continue; 175 } The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well, otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-763
Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel < 6.1.91linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.31linux
linux/Kernel 6.5.0 - 6.8.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.5
Linux/Linux 3c6cc62ce1265aa5623e2e1b29c0fe258bf6e232 - 9f6eb0ab4f95240589ee85fd9886a944cd3645b2
Linux/Linux 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 - 79cbe0be6c0317b215ddd8bd3e32f0afdac48543
Linux/Linux 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 - ac6cf3ce9b7d12acb7b528248df5f87caa25fcdc
Linux/Linux 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 - cd7eb8f83fcf258f71e293f7fc52a70be8ed0128
Linux/Linux 6.1.79 - 6.1.91
Linux/Linux 6.1.91 - 6.1.*
... and 8 more
Published May 30, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026