CVE-2024-25740 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2024-25740?

CVE-2024-25740 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A memory leak flaw was found in the UBI driver in drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.4 for UBI_IOCATT, because kobj->name is not released.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25740?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-25740?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-25740 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-25740 exists.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-34525, AZL-34888, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25740, GHSA-2mff-f6qm-822q, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-25740, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-25740 and 3 more.