CVE-2024-26655

Summary

CVE-2024-26655 is a recently identified vulnerability in the Linux kernel. This issue involves a memory leak in the function posix_clock_open(). If the clk ops.open() function encounters an error, the allocated pccontext for the clock is not released. With slight code reorganization, this oversight has been rectified to prevent potential memory exhaustion and related system instability.

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