tools/power turbostat: Fix file pointer leak
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 88% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tools/power turbostat: Fix file pointer leak
Currently if a fscanf fails then an early return leaks an open
file pointer. Fix this by fclosing the file before the return.
Detected using static analysis with cppcheck:
tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c:2039:3: error: Resource leak: fp [resourceLeak]
Affected products
Linux · Linux