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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2024-50068

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/tests/sysfs-kunit.h: fix memory leak in damon_sysfs_test_add_targets() The sysfs_target->regions allocated in damon_sysfs_regions_alloc() is not freed in damon_sysfs_test_add_targets(), which cause the following memory leak, free it to fix it. unreferenced object 0xffffff80c2a8db80 (size 96): comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 187, jiffies 4294894363 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 0): [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [<000000008e6835c1>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4 [<000000001286d9f8>] damon_sysfs_test_add_targets+0x1cc/0x738 [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

  • 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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  • Published