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CVE-2024-40997cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.27%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 81% 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: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 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)
- 0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected ffa5096a7c338641f70fb06d4778e8cf400181a8 – < 448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cd
- affected ffa5096a7c338641f70fb06d4778e8cf400181a8 – < 8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582
- affected ffa5096a7c338641f70fb06d4778e8cf400181a8 – < cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81
- affected 6.3
- unaffected < 6.3
- unaffected 6.6.36 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.9.7 – ≤ 6.9.*
- unaffected 6.10 – ≤ *
References
References3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cd (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81 (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-2024-38796 (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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