Double Free Affecting kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched package, versions <0:5.14.0-427.81.1.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNEL64KDEBUGDEVELMATCHED-11489792
  • published6 Aug 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-57980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched to version 0:5.14.0-427.81.1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:13135.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched package and not the kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path

If the uvc_status_init() function fails to allocate the int_urb, it will free the dev->status pointer but doesn't reset the pointer to NULL. This results in the kfree() call in uvc_status_cleanup() trying to double-free the memory. Fix it by resetting the dev->status pointer to NULL after freeing it.

Reviewed by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>

CVSS Base Scores

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