CVE-2024-27077: Debian Linux

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: media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity The entity->name (i.e. name) is allocated in v4l2_m2m_register_entity but isn't freed in its following error-handling paths. This patch adds such deallocation to prevent memleak of entity->name.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.19, before 4.19.311 (fixed in 4.19.311); from 4.20, before 5.4.273 (fixed in 5.4.273); from 5.5, before 5.10.214 (fixed in 5.10.214); from 5.11, before 5.15.153 (fixed in 5.15.153); from 5.16, before 6.1.83 (fixed in 6.1.83); from 6.2, before 6.6.23 (fixed in 6.6.23); …

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.