CVE-2024-56572
kernel: media: platform: allegro-dvt: Fix possible memory leak in allocate_buffers_internal()
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · December 27, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: platform: allegro-dvt: Fix possible memory leak in allocate_buffers_internal()
The buffer in the loop should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be a memory leak here.
To mitigate this, free the buffer when allegro_alloc_buffer fails.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime