vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-40997: kernel: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Added
Sep 25, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit

The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is
not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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