- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 85% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device There is a reference count leak issue of the object "net_device" in ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause memory leak. In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b – < 3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6bad
- affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b – < 965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981b
- affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b – < 8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944a
- affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b – < eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9
- affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b – < 36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2
- affected ef0a2a0565727a48f2e36a2c461f8b1e3a61922d
- affected e2b558fe507a1ed4c43db2b0057fc6e41f20a14c
- affected 418993bbaafb0cd48f904ba68eeda052d624c821
- affected 5ea00fc60676c0eebfa8560ec461209d638bca9d
- affected 9af0fd5c4453a44c692be0cbb3724859b75d739b
- affected 4.14.277 – < 4.15
- affected 4.19.240 – < 4.20
- affected 5.4.190 – < 5.5
- affected 5.10.112 – < 5.11
- affected 5.15.35 – < 5.16
- affected 5.17
- unaffected < 5.17
- unaffected 6.1.93 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.33 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.8.12 – ≤ 6.8.*
- unaffected 6.9.3 – ≤ 6.9.*
- unaffected 6.10 – ≤ *
References
References5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6bad (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944a (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-37417 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-38554)Record last updated .