UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26655

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26655

    Published: 1 Apr 2024Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2024-26655
    Aliases:
    USN-6816-1
    USN-6817-1
    USN-6817-2

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open() If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the pccontext we allocated for this clock. Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26655, https://git.kernel.org/linus/5b4cdd9c5676559b8a7c944ac5269b914b8c0bb8, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b4cdd9c5676559b8a7c944ac5269b914b8c0bb8, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26655, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6816-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6817-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6817-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6817-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6878-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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