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CVE-2024-56613
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-12-27T15:15:20.793 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:12:33.003

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/numa: fix memory leak due to the overwritten vma->numab_state [Problem Description] When running the hackbench program of LTP, the following memory leak is reported by kmemleak. # /opt/ltp/testcases/bin/hackbench 20 thread 1000 Running with 20*40 (== 800) tasks. # dmesg | grep kmemleak ... kmemleak: 480 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 665 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffff888cd8ca2c40 (size 64): comm "hackbench", pid 17142, jiffies 4299780315 hex dump (first 32 bytes): ac 74 49 00 01 00 00 00 4c 84 49 00 01 00 00 00 .tI.....L.I..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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