CVE-2024-25740 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A memory leak flaw was found in the UBI driver in drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.4 for UBI_IOCATT, because kobj->name is not released.

Published: 2024-02-12

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-23048	A memory leak flaw was found in the UBI driver in drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.4 for UBI_IOCATT, because kobj->name is not released.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00012.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0171b6cc-95ee-3538-913b-65a391a446b3%40huawei.com/T/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25740
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25740

History

Wed, 07 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Linux Linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T21:05:09.235Z

Reserved: 2024-02-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-25740

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:52:05.491Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-12T03:15:32.823

Modified: 2025-05-07T21:16:03.333

Link: CVE-2024-25740

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-02-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-25740 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-401

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