CVE-2024-44971

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: bcmsf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcmsf2mdioregister bcmsf2mdioregister calls ofphyfinddevice and then phydeviceremove in a loop to remove existing PHY devices. ofphyfinddevice eventually calls busfinddevice, which...

CVE-2024-44971

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: bcmsf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcmsf2mdioregister bcmsf2mdioregister calls ofphyfinddevice and then phydeviceremove in a loop to remove existing PHY devices. ofphyfinddevice eventually calls busfinddevice, which...

CVE-2024-44971

CVE-2024-44971 relates to the Linux kernel bcm_sf2 (net: dsa) driver. The issue was a memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register(): after of_phy_find_device() returns devices, phy_device_remove() is called in a loop but the refcount on the PHY device was not decremented, as get_device() incremented it ...