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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2020-36786

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: [next] staging: media: atomisp: fix memory leak of object flash In the case where the call to lm3554_platform_data_func returns an error there is a memory leak on the error return path of object flash. Fix this by adding an error return path that will free flash and rename labels fail2 to fail3 and fail1 to fail2.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published