CVE-2024-38554

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38554
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38554.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-38554
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-06-19T13:35:25.406Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:53:54.450406852Z
Summary
ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device
Details

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 "netdevice" in ax25devdevicedown(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the ax25devdevicedown() drops the reference count of netdevice 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 netdevice after dev->ax25ptr is set to null.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38554.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.17.0
Fixed
6.1.93
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.33
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.8.12
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.9.0
Fixed
6.9.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38554.json"