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CVE-2024-42262: drm/v3d: Fix potential memory leak in the performance extension

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/v3d: Fix potential memory leak in the performance extension If fetching of userspace memory fails during the main loop, all drm sync objs looked up until that point will be leaked because of the missing drm_syncobj_put. Fix it by exporting and using a common cleanup helper. (cherry picked from commit 484de39fa5f5b7bd0c5f2e2c5265167250ef7501)

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.8 before 6.10.4; 6.11-rc1 — fixed in 6.10.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.10.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32df4abc44f24dbec239d43e2b26d5768c5d1a78
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad5fdc48f7a63b8a98493c667505fe4d3864ae21

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