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CVE-2024-39489

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-07-10 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: sr: fix memleak in seg6_hmac_init_algo seg6_hmac_init_algo returns without cleaning up the previous allocations if one fails, so it's going to leak all that memory and the crypto tfms. Update seg6_hmac_exit to only free the memory when allocated, so we can reuse the code directly.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References