{"cve":"CVE-2024-36890","nvd":{"published":"2024-05-30T16:15:12.493","modified":"2026-08-04T11:18:27.523","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers\n\nCurrently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that\nwill lead to a crash.  An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show().\n\n   171\tchar *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i);\n   172\tif (IS_ERR(label)) {\n   173\t\tdev_err(wm831x->dev, \"Failed to duplicate label\\n\");\n   174\t\tcontinue;\n   175  }\n\nThe auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well,\notherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-763"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79cbe0be6c0317b215ddd8bd3e32f0afdac48543","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/946771c2a2b1150f9b7286feadc3aa1e15a1eb16","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6eb0ab4f95240589ee85fd9886a944cd3645b2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac6cf3ce9b7d12acb7b528248df5f87caa25fcdc","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd7eb8f83fcf258f71e293f7fc52a70be8ed0128"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:51:20.603330631+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-36890","score":0.00237,"percentile":0.14772,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}