CVE-2024-26839

kernel: IB/hfi1: Fix a memleak in init_credit_return

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 17, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

IB/hfi1: Fix a memleak in init_credit_return

When dma_alloc_coherent fails to allocate dd->cr_base[i].va, init_credit_return should deallocate dd->cr_base and dd->cr_base[i] that allocated before. Or those resources would be never freed and a memleak is triggered.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')