CVE-2024-39489
kernel: ipv6: sr: fix memleak in seg6_hmac_init_algo
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 10, 2024
Updated · March 4, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: sr: fix memleak in seg6_hmac_init_algo
seg6_hmac_init_algo returns without cleaning up the previous allocations if one fails, so it's going to leak all that memory and the crypto tfms.
Update seg6_hmac_exit to only free the memory when allocated, so we can reuse the code directly.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE not specified