CVE-2024-27068 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path If devm_krealloc() fails, then 'efuse' is leaking. So free it to avoid a leak.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
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	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2db869da91afd48e5b9ec76814709be49662b07d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b02197596671800dd934609384b1aca7c6ad218
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37f3652bee468f879d35fe2da9ede3f1dcbb7be
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca93bf607a44c1f009283dac4af7df0d9ae5e357
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050132-CVE-2024-27068-c844@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27068
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27068

History

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses		CWE-401
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-05-01T13:04:19.518Z

Updated: 2025-05-04T09:03:31.715Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.216Z

Link: CVE-2024-27068

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:27:57.826Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-01T13:15:50.937

Modified: 2024-12-23T14:25:40.240

Link: CVE-2024-27068

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-27068 - Bugzilla

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