CVE-2024-36959 pinctrl: devicetree: fix refcount leak in pinctrl_dt_to_map()

What is CVE-2024-36959?

CVE-2024-36959 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 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:

pinctrl: devicetree: fix refcount leak in pinctrl_dt_to_map()

If we fail to allocate propname buffer, we need to drop the reference count we just took. Because the pinctrl_dt_free_maps() includes the droping operation, here we call it directly.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36959?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-36959?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-36959 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-36959, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36959, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36959.