CWE-772
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Description
The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.
Hierarchy (View 1000)
Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-469
CVEs mapped to this weakness (482)
page 18 of 25| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2017-13682 | Med | 0.37 | 5.7 | 0.00 | Oct 23, 2017 | In Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1 MP2HF1, a kernel memory leak is a type of resource leak that can occur when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. In object-oriented… | ||
| CVE-2025-71232 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 18, 2026 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash System crash seen during load/unload test in a loop, [61110.449331] qla2xxx [0000:27:00.0]-0042:0: Disabled MSI-X. [61110.467494]… | ||
| CVE-2026-23219 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 18, 2026 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: Add alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook for memcg_alloc_abort_single When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG is enabled, the following warning may be noticed: [ 3959.023862] ------------[ cut here… | ||
| CVE-2023-53199 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Sep 15, 2025 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: clean up skbs if ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() fails Syzkaller detected a memory leak of skbs in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). While processing skbs in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(), the already… | ||
| CVE-2023-53152 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Sep 15, 2025 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which is caused by that BOs allocated for psp are not freed until removing. … | ||
| CVE-2024-53074 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 19, 2024 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't leak a link on AP removal Release the link mapping resource in AP removal. This impacted devices that do not support the MLD API (9260 and down). On those devices, we couldn't start… | ||
| CVE-2024-47733 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Oct 21, 2024 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Delete subtree of 'fs/netfs' when netfs module exits In netfs_init() or fscache_proc_init(), we create dentry under 'fs/netfs', but in netfs_exit(), we only delete the proc entry of 'fs/netfs' without… | ||
| CVE-2021-47283 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | May 21, 2024 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode SFC driver can be configured via modparam to work using MSI-X, MSI or legacy IRQ interrupts. In the last one, the interrupt was not properly released on module… | ||
| CVE-2024-35821 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.01 | May 17, 2024 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Set page uptodate in the correct place Page cache reads are lockless, so setting the freshly allocated page uptodate before we've overwritten it with the data it's supposed to have in it will allow a… | ||
| CVE-2022-28187 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | May 17, 2022 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys), where the memory management software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial of service. | ||
| CVE-2020-9146 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Apr 1, 2021 | A memory buffer error vulnerability exists in a component interface of Huawei Smartphone. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause memory leakage and doS attacks by carefully constructing attack scenarios. | ||
| CVE-2020-7455 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.01 | May 13, 2020 | In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r360973, 12.1-RELEASE before p5, 11.4-STABLE before r360973, 11.4-BETA1 before p1 and 11.3-RELEASE before p9, the FTP packet handler in libalias incorrectly calculates some packet length allowing disclosure of small amounts of kernel (for kernel… | ||
| CVE-2011-2498 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 20, 2020 | The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering creation of PTE pages. | ||
| CVE-2019-10520 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Dec 12, 2019 | An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670,… | ||
| CVE-2019-0148 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 14, 2019 | Resource leak in i40e driver for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers versions before 7.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. | ||
| CVE-2019-0146 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 14, 2019 | Resource leak in i40e driver for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers versions before 2.8.43 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. | ||
| CVE-2019-5671 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 27, 2019 | NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which the software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial of service. | ||
| CVE-2018-20126 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Dec 20, 2018 | hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c in QEMU allows create_cq and create_qp memory leaks because errors are mishandled. | ||
| CVE-2018-20123 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Dec 17, 2018 | pvrdma_realize in hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c in QEMU has a Memory leak after an initialisation error. | ||
| CVE-2018-20002 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.02 | Dec 10, 2018 | The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm. |
- risk 0.37cvss 5.7epss 0.00
In Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1 MP2HF1, a kernel memory leak is a type of resource leak that can occur when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. In object-oriented…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash System crash seen during load/unload test in a loop, [61110.449331] qla2xxx [0000:27:00.0]-0042:0: Disabled MSI-X. [61110.467494]…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: Add alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook for memcg_alloc_abort_single When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG is enabled, the following warning may be noticed: [ 3959.023862] ------------[ cut here…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: clean up skbs if ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() fails Syzkaller detected a memory leak of skbs in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). While processing skbs in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(), the already…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which is caused by that BOs allocated for psp are not freed until removing. …
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't leak a link on AP removal Release the link mapping resource in AP removal. This impacted devices that do not support the MLD API (9260 and down). On those devices, we couldn't start…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Delete subtree of 'fs/netfs' when netfs module exits In netfs_init() or fscache_proc_init(), we create dentry under 'fs/netfs', but in netfs_exit(), we only delete the proc entry of 'fs/netfs' without…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode SFC driver can be configured via modparam to work using MSI-X, MSI or legacy IRQ interrupts. In the last one, the interrupt was not properly released on module…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Set page uptodate in the correct place Page cache reads are lockless, so setting the freshly allocated page uptodate before we've overwritten it with the data it's supposed to have in it will allow a…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys), where the memory management software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial of service.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
A memory buffer error vulnerability exists in a component interface of Huawei Smartphone. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause memory leakage and doS attacks by carefully constructing attack scenarios.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.01
In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r360973, 12.1-RELEASE before p5, 11.4-STABLE before r360973, 11.4-BETA1 before p1 and 11.3-RELEASE before p9, the FTP packet handler in libalias incorrectly calculates some packet length allowing disclosure of small amounts of kernel (for kernel…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering creation of PTE pages.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670,…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Resource leak in i40e driver for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers versions before 7.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Resource leak in i40e driver for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers versions before 2.8.43 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which the software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial of service.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c in QEMU allows create_cq and create_qp memory leaks because errors are mishandled.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
pvrdma_realize in hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c in QEMU has a Memory leak after an initialisation error.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.02
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.