CVE-2024-53202 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

The alg instance should be released under the exception path otherwise there may be resource leak here.

To mitigate this free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369a9c046c2fdfe037f05b43b84c386bdbccc103 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789a72498d32f88d24371c10985aceb46397056c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb5d67d00ad17a5bd0920f455160dc2ccbd2dc78 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f380f895dbb2a11d62ca6df9e82d995f4bc26b84