CVE-2024-56572

Summary

CVE-2024-56572 is a recently identified vulnerability in the Linux kernel. This issue affects the Allegro DVT media driver and involves a memory leak in the function "allocate_buffers_internal()". The buffer in question is not being released properly under certain exception paths, which can lead to a memory leak. To address this vulnerability, developers must ensure that the buffer is freed when allegro_alloc_buffer fails. By releasing the buffer under these conditions, the potential for memory leaks is eliminated.

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