CVE-2024-40997: 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: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6.36 (fixed in 6.6.36); from 6.7, before 6.9.7 (fixed in 6.9.7)

Published 2024-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.