firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 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:
firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()
The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise
there may be resource leak here.
To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc
fails.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux