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CVE-2024-56745

kernel: PCI: Fix reset_method_store() memory leak

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 29, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

PCI: Fix reset_method_store() memory leak

In reset_method_store(), a string is allocated via kstrndup() and assigned to the local "options". options is then used in with strsep() to find spaces:

while ((name = strsep(&options, " ")) != NULL) {

If there are no remaining spaces, then options is set to NULL by strsep(), so the subsequent kfree(options) doesn't free the memory allocated via kstrndup().

Fix by using a separate tmp_options to iterate with strsep() so options is preserved.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime