CVE-2024-38554

2024-06-2000:00:00

ubuntu.com

linux kernel

ax25

net_device

reference count

memory leak

7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device
There is a reference count leak issue of the object “net_device” in
ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the
ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one
or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will
cause memory leak.
In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of
net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchlinux< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchlinux-aws< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux-aws< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchlinux-aws< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	linux	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	linux-aws	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	linux-aws	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	linux-aws	< any	UNKNOWN