# CVE-2024-35816: firewire: ohci: prevent leak of left-over IRQ on unbind

> A resource leak in the Linux kernel firewire driver can cause a denial of service when the driver is unbound.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 May 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-35816, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35816, GHSA-xwgm-hj5f-p996, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35816

## What is CVE-2024-35816?

CVE-2024-35816 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

firewire: ohci: prevent leak of left-over IRQ on unbind

Commit 5a95f1ded28691e6 ("firewire: ohci: use devres for requested IRQ")
also removed the call to free_irq() in pci_remove(), leading to a
leftover irq of devm_request_irq() at pci_disable_msi() in pci_remove()
when unbinding the driver from the device

remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/136', leaking at
least 'firewire_ohci'
Call Trace:
 ? remove_proc_entry+0x19c/0x1c0
 ? __warn+0x81/0x130
 ? remove_proc_entry+0x19c/0x1c0
 ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0
 ? console_unlock+0x78/0x120
 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
 ? remove_proc_entry+0x19c/0x1c0
 unregister_irq_proc+0xf4/0x120
 free_desc+0x3d/0xe0
 ? kfree+0x29f/0x2f0
 irq_free_descs+0x47/0x70
 msi_domain_free_locked.part.0+0x19d/0x1d0
 msi_domain_free_irqs_all_locked+0x81/0xc0
 pci_free_msi_irqs+0x12/0x40
 pci_disable_msi+0x4c/0x60
 pci_remove+0x9d/0xc0 [firewire_ohci
     01b483699bebf9cb07a3d69df0aa2bee71db1b26]
 pci_device_remove+0x37/0xa0
 device_release_driver_internal+0x19f/0x200
 unbind_store+0xa1/0xb0

remove irq with devm_free_irq() before pci_disable_msi()
also remove it in fail_msi: of pci_probe() as this would lead to
an identical leak

Weakness: CWE-401 (Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35816?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-35816?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-35816 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35816 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-35816 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-35816 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35816 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35816/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35816/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35816
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35816
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35816

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