CVE-2024-40997

kernel: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 12, 2024

Updated · November 2, 2026

Description

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit

The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere