Bug 2278374 (CVE-2024-27068)

Summary:	CVE-2024-27068 kernel: thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 6.6.23, kernel 6.7.11, kernel 6.8.2, kernel 6.9-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in the lvts_calibration_read() function in the Linux Kernel's mediatek lvts_thermal.c driver, where a memory leak can occur when the function devm_krealloc() fails, preventing efuse from being freed. This issue can lead to resource exhaustion over time.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2278375
Bug Blocks:	2278552

Description Zack Miele 2024-05-01 19:56:54 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-27068 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050132-CVE-2024-27068-c844@gregkh/T

Comment 1 Zack Miele 2024-05-01 19:57:27 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2278375]

Comment 2 Alex 2024-06-09 13:16:52 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2024-27068 is: 	SKIP	No affected files built, so skip this CVE	NO			-	-	unknown (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).