CVE-2024-38554 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-38554

ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device There is a reference count leak issue of the object "net_device" in ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause memory leak. In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b, ef0a2a0565727a48f2e36a2c461f8b1e3a61922d, e2b558fe507a1ed4c43db2b0057fc6e41f20a14c, 418993bbaafb0cd48f904ba68eeda052d624c821, 5ea00fc60676c0eebfa8560ec461209d638bca9d, 9af0fd5c4453a44c692be0cbb3724859b75d739b, 4.14.277, 4.19.240, 5.4.190, 5.10.112, 5.15.35, 5.17, 0, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3, 6.10

Timeline

Official Publish: June 19th, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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