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CVE-2024-50166 - Freescale Semiconductor FMAN Reference Leak Vulnerability (Denial of Service)

CVE ID : CVE-2024-50166
Published : Nov. 7, 2024, 10:15 a.m. | 20 minutes ago
Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices In mac_probe() there are multiple calls to of_find_device_by_node(), fman_bind() and fman_port_bind() which takes references to of_dev->dev. Not all references taken by these calls are released later on error path in mac_probe() and in mac_remove() which lead to reference leaks. Add references release.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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