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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-42138

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 7/30/2024 4:15:05 AM

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Added Description

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

mlxsw: core_linecards: Fix double memory deallocation in case of invalid INI file

In case of invalid INI file mlxsw_linecard_types_init() deallocates memory
but doesn't reset pointer to NULL and returns 0. In case of any error
occurred after mlxsw_linecard_types_init() call, mlxsw_linecards_init()
calls mlxsw_linecard_types_fini() which performs memory deallocation again.

Add pointer reset to NULL.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ce34dccbe8fa7d2ef86f2d8e7db2a9b67cabfc3 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9af7437669b72f804fc4269f487528dbbed142a2 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab557f5cd993a3201b09593633d04b891263d5c0 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8b55a465b0e8a500179808166fe9420f5c091a1 [No types assigned]