CVE-2024-56546 drivers: soc: xilinx: add the missing kfree in xlnx_add_cb_for_suspend()

What is CVE-2024-56546?

CVE-2024-56546 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 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:

drivers: soc: xilinx: add the missing kfree in xlnx_add_cb_for_suspend()

If we fail to allocate memory for cb_data by kmalloc, the memory allocation for eve_data is never freed, add the missing kfree() in the error handling path.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56546?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-56546?

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-2024-56546 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-56546, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56546, GHSA-874p-f6c3-782r, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56546.