CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-38554
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6bad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9