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medium 5.5

CVE-2024-43850 json

soc: qcom: icc-bwmon: Fix refcount imbalance seen during bwmon_remove

published 2024-08-17 2 y ago modified 2026-10-30 9 d ago also EUVD-2024-40500

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

soc: qcom: icc-bwmon: Fix refcount imbalance seen during bwmon_remove

The following warning is seen during bwmon_remove due to refcount imbalance, fix this by releasing the OPPs after use.

Logs: WARNING: at drivers/opp/core.c:1640 _opp_table_kref_release+0x150/0x158 Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. X1E80100 CRD (DT) ... Call trace: _opp_table_kref_release+0x150/0x158 dev_pm_opp_remove_table+0x100/0x1b4 devm_pm_opp_of_table_release+0x10/0x1c devm_action_release+0x14/0x20 devres_release_all+0xa4/0x104 device_unbind_cleanup+0x18/0x60 device_release_driver_internal+0x1ec/0x228 driver_detach+0x50/0x98 bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xbc driver_unregister+0x30/0x60 platform_driver_unregister+0x14/0x20 bwmon_driver_exit+0x18/0x524 [icc_bwmon] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x184/0x264 invoke_syscall+0x48/0x118 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xe8 do_el0_svc+0x20/0x2c el0_svc+0x34/0xdc el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 --[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.191, 6.6.44, 6.10.3, 6.11
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.10.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43850

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1019.21
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1015.19
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1017.17
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1020.23
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1002.4
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1016.18

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43850

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-10.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-10.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1SUSE-SU-2024:3194-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-43850 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: soc: qcom: icc-bwmon: Fix refcount imbalance seen during bwmon_remove

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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