CVE-2024-36973
kernel: double free in the error handling of gp_aux_bus_probe()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 17, 2024
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: microchip: pci1xxxx: fix double free in the error handling of gp_aux_bus_probe()
When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), callback function gp_auxiliary_device_release() calls ida_free() and kfree(aux_device_wrapper) to free memory. We should't call them again in the error handling path.
Fix this by skipping the redundant cleanup functions.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE not specified