CVE-2024-56766

kernel: mtd: rawnand: fix double free in atmel_pmecc_create_user()

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · January 6, 2025

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

mtd: rawnand: fix double free in atmel_pmecc_create_user()

The "user" pointer was converted from being allocated with kzalloc() to being allocated by devm_kzalloc(). Calling kfree(user) will lead to a double free.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-415 · Double Free