UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36973
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: microchip: pci1xxxx: fix double free in the error handling of gp_aux_bus_probe() When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), callback function gp_auxiliary_device_release() calls ida_free() and kfree(aux_device_wrapper) to free memory. We should't call them again in the error handling path. Fix this by skipping the redundant cleanup functions.
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: microchip: pci1xxxx: fix double free in the error handling of gp_aux_bus_probe() When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), callback function gp_auxiliary_device_release() calls ida_free() and kfree(aux_device_wrapper) to free memory. We should't call them again in the error handling path. Fix this by skipping the redundant cleanup functions.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/086c6cbcc563c81d55257f9b27e14faf1d0963d3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/086c6cbcc563c81d55257f9b27e14faf1d0963d3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-36973
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6999-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6999-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7004-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7005-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7005-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7008-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7029-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36973