CVE-2024-36942 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: qca: fix firmware check error path

A recent commit fixed the code that parses the firmware files before downloading them to the controller but introduced a memory leak in case the sanity checks ever fail.

Make sure to free the firmware buffer before returning on errors.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/580bcd6bf24f9975f97d81d5ef1b64cca9240df9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/064688d70c33bb5b49dde6e972b9379a8b045d8a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bcba557d5c37cd09ecd5abbe7d50deb86c36d3f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1f768214320852766a60a815a0be8f14fba0cc3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40d442f969fb1e871da6fca73d3f8aef1f888558