Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: tw686x: Fix memory leak in tw686x_video_init
video_device_alloc() allocates memory for vdev, when video_register_device() fails, it doesn’t release the memory and leads to memory leak, call video_device_release() to fix this.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: tw686x: Fix memory leak in tw686x_video_init
video_device_alloc() allocates memory for vdev, when video_register_device() fails, it doesn’t release the memory and leads to memory leak, call video_device_release() to fix this.