CVE-2024-36947

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.15.159 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qibfs: fix dentry leak simple_recursive_removal() drops the pinning references to all positives in subtree. For the cases when its argument has been kept alive by the pinning alone that's exactly the right thing to do, but here the argument comes from dcache lookup, that needs to be balanced by explicit dput(). Fucked-up-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (12)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.15.159
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 5.15.159linux
linux/Kernel < 6.1.91linux
linux/Kernel < 6.6.31linux
linux/Kernel < 6.8.10linux

Timeline

Published May 30, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026