CVE-2024-26894

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the ACPI processor idle functionality. After unregistering the CPU idle device, the associated memory is not freed, leading to a memory leak. The issue is related to the acpi processor power exit() function. Technical details include a backtrace with various function calls, such as kmalloc trace+0x29d/0x340, acpi processor power init+0xf3/0x1c0, and really probe+0xe2/0x480. The memory leak is caused by an unreferenced object with a size of 1024 bytes.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.