firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 78% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle
kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ba359ebe914ac3f8c6c832b28007c14c39d3766https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985706bd3bbeffc8737bc05965ca8d24837bc7dbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a724634b2a49f6ff0177a9e19a5a92fc1545e1b7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9bfb37d6ba7c376b0d53337a4c5f5ff324bd725https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c66cc3c62870a27ea8f060a7e4c1ad8d26dd3f0dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec752973aa721ee281d5441e497364637c626c7bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed38d04342dfbe9e5aca745c8b5eb4188a74f0efhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdffa4ad8f6bf1ece877edfb807f2b2c729d8578