CVE-2024-26734 (GCVE-0-2024-26734)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-03 17:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:03
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Title
devlink: fix possible use-after-free and memory leaks in devlink_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: devlink: fix possible use-after-free and memory leaks in devlink_init() The pernet operations structure for the subsystem must be registered before registering the generic netlink family. Make an unregister in case of unsuccessful registration.
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Linux Linux Affected: 687125b5799cd5120437fa455cfccbe8537916ff , < 919092bd5482b7070ae66d1daef73b600738f3a2 (git)
Affected: 687125b5799cd5120437fa455cfccbe8537916ff , < e91d3561e28d7665f4f837880501dc8755f635a9 (git)
Affected: 687125b5799cd5120437fa455cfccbe8537916ff , < def689fc26b9a9622d2e2cb0c4933dd3b1c8071c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.19 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.7 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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