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GHSA-C83G-5QWQ-VRFJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-21 21:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:31

Details

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

driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register()

For bus_register(), any error which happens after kset_register() will cause that @priv are freed twice, fixed by setting @priv with NULL after the first free.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2024-50055 (GCVE-0-2024-50055)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 19:39 – Updated: 2026-01-05 10:54

Title

driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: bus: Fix double free in driver API bus_register() For bus_register(), any error which happens after kset_register() will cause that @priv are freed twice, fixed by setting @priv with NULL after the first free.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d885c464c25018b81…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ce15f68abedfae7a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfa54a793ba77ef69…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 3465e2e4a24eef9bc9f21aa29d83fd7000c1da48 , < d885c464c25018b81a6b58f5d548fc2e3ef87dd1 (git)
Affected: 3465e2e4a24eef9bc9f21aa29d83fd7000c1da48 , < 9ce15f68abedfae7ae0a35e95895aeddfd0f0c6a (git)
Affected: 3465e2e4a24eef9bc9f21aa29d83fd7000c1da48 , < bfa54a793ba77ef696755b66f3ac4ed00c7d1248 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.57 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.4 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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