Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: v4l2-tpg: fix some memleaks in tpg_alloc
In tpg_alloc, resources should be deallocated in each and every error-handling paths, since they are allocated in for statements. Otherwise there would be memleaks because tpg_free is called only when tpg_alloc return 0.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+7 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: v4l2-tpg: fix some memleaks in tpg_alloc
In tpg_alloc, resources should be deallocated in each and every error-handling paths, since they are allocated in for statements. Otherwise there would be memleaks because tpg_free is called only when tpg_alloc return 0.