CVE-2024-43861: net: usb: qmi_wwan: fix memory leak for not ip packets

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: qmi_wwan: fix memory leak for not ip packets

Free the unused skb when not ip packets arrive.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-43861

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.67% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-05 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43861
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c90a69533b5bba73401ef884d033ea49ee99662
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37c093449704017870604994ba9b813cdb9475a4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e87f52225e04a7001bf55bbd7a330fa4252327b5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4251a3deccad852b27e60625f31fba6cc14372f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da518cc9b64df391795d9952aed551e0f782e446
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2c353227de14b0289298ffc3ba92058c4768384
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6c5b91424fafc0f83852d961c10c7e43a001882
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ab107544b777c3bd7feb9fe447367d8edd5b202

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