CVE-2024-50231

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Nov 9, 2024
Updated: Nov 13, 2024
CWE ID 401

Summary

CVE-2024-50231 is a memory leak vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel's iio-gts driver. The issue arises due to a failure to free memory allocated for per_time_gains in the function iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table(). This results in unreferenced objects with sizes 64 and 16 bytes, as observed in the hex dumps and backtraces. The vulnerability occurs during the execution of test_init_iio_gain_scale() with gts_test_gains size 10 and gts_test_itimes size 5, resulting in five instances of the 64-byte memory leak, and one instance of the 16-byte memory leak due to the gts_test_gains_gain_low size 3 and gts_test_itimes size 5 parameters.

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