CVE-2024-36967: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KEYS: trusted: Fix memory leak in tpm2_key_encode() 'scratch' is never freed. Fix this by calling kfree() in the success, and in the error case.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.160 (fixed in 5.15.160); from 5.16, before 6.1.92 (fixed in 6.1.92); from 6.2, before 6.6.32 (fixed in 6.6.32); from 6.7, before 6.8.11 (fixed in 6.8.11); from 6.9, before 6.9.2 (fixed in 6.9.2)

Published 2024-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.