CVE-2024-35975: linux kernel vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix transmit scheduler resource leak Inorder to support shaping and scheduling, Upon class creation Netdev driver allocates trasmit schedulers. The previous patch which added support for Round robin scheduling has a bug due to which driver is not freeing transmit schedulers post class deletion. This patch fixes the same.
CVE-2024-35975CVSS 5.5Linux

CVE-2024-35975: linux kernel vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix transmit scheduler resource leak Inorder to support shaping and scheduling, Upon class creation Netdev driver allocates trasmit schedulers. The previous patch which added support for Round robin scheduling has a bug due to which driver is not freeing transmit schedulers post class deletion. This patch fixes the same.

CVSS
5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
12.71%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
linux kernel

What is known

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix transmit scheduler resource leak Inorder to support shaping and scheduling, Upon class creation Netdev driver allocates trasmit schedulers. The previous patch which added support for Round robin scheduling has a bug due to which driver is not freeing transmit schedulers post class deletion. This patch fixes the same.

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