CVE-2024-26655: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.7, before 6.7.12 (fixed in 6.7.12); from 6.8, before 6.8.3 (fixed in 6.8.3); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.