Security Advisory

CVE-2024-42138

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-07-30 07:46:32
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:27:42
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: core_linecards: Fix double memory deallocation in case of invalid INI file In case of invalid INI file mlxsw_linecard_types_init() deallocates memory but doesnt reset pointer to NULL and returns 0. In case of any error occurred after mlxsw_linecard_types_init() call, mlxsw_linecards_init() calls mlxsw_linecard_types_fini() which performs memory deallocation again. Add pointer reset to NULL. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.