Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit
CVE-2024-40997
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 ]
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Affected products
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