CWE-772— Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.— MITRE CWE catalog
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CVEs classified under CWE-772page 10 of 12
- CVE-2026-97686MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-28
Wind River VxWorks 7 prior to 26.09, specific system call arguments can result in the IPNET subsystem failing to properly release allocated kernel memory and system file descriptors before terminating the calling application. Fixed in Vers…
- CVE-2026-100079MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: unregister debugfs entries on teardown ucsi_register() creates per-instance debugfs entries, but ucsi_unregister() keeps them around until ucsi_destroy…
- CVE-2026-72931MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-08
Missing release of resource after effective lifetime in Windows Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.
- CVE-2026-53251MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-06-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: ISO: Fix not releasing hdev reference on iso_conn_big_sync hci_get_route() returns a reference-counted hci_dev pointer via hci_dev_hold(). The function exits …
- CVE-2026-53154MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-06-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths Two sites in mm/hugetlb.c allocate a hugetlb folio via alloc_hugetlb_folio() (consuming a VMA reserv…
- CVE-2026-46292MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-06-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pmdomain: core: Fix detach procedure for virtual devices in genpd If a device is attached to a PM domain through genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id(), genpd calls pm_runtime_enab…
- CVE-2026-45287MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-28
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Prior to version 0.0.17, `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.0` and `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.1` leaks one file descriptor on each successful `ParseFile` call. `ParseFil…
- CVE-2026-43314MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: remove fake timeout to avoid leak request Since commit 15f73f5b3e59 ("blk-mq: move failure injection out of blk_mq_complete_request"), drivers are responsible for ca…
- CVE-2026-43257MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx88: Add missing unmap in snd_cx88_hw_params() In error path, add cx88_alsa_dma_unmap() to release resource acquired by cx88_alsa_dma_map().
- CVE-2026-43054MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: tcm_loop: Drain commands in target_reset handler tcm_loop_target_reset() violates the SCSI EH contract: it returns SUCCESS without draining any in-flight c…
- CVE-2026-23299MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: purge error queues in socket destructors When TX timestamping is enabled via SO_TIMESTAMPING, SKBs may be queued into sk_error_queue and will stay there until…
- CVE-2025-71268MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-03-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from __cow_file_range_inline(…
- CVE-2026-23219MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-02-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: Add alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook for memcg_alloc_abort_single When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG is enabled, the following warning may be noticed: [ 3959.02…
- CVE-2025-71232MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-02-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash System crash seen during load/unload test in a loop, [61110.449331] qla2xxx [0000:27:00.0]-0042:0: Disabled MSI…
- CVE-2026-22997MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-01-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: can: j1939: j1939_xtp_rx_rts_session_active(): deactivate session upon receiving the second rts Since j1939_session_deactivate_activate_next() in j1939_tp_rxtimer()…
- CVE-2023-53199MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: clean up skbs if ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() fails Syzkaller detected a memory leak of skbs in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). While processing skbs in at…
- CVE-2023-53152MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which is caused by that BOs allocated for ps…
- CVE-2024-53074MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52024-11-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't leak a link on AP removal Release the link mapping resource in AP removal. This impacted devices that do not support the MLD API (9260 and down…
- CVE-2024-47733MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52024-10-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Delete subtree of 'fs/netfs' when netfs module exits In netfs_init() or fscache_proc_init(), we create dentry under 'fs/netfs', but in netfs_exit(), we only delet…
- CVE-2021-47283MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52024-05-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode SFC driver can be configured via modparam to work using MSI-X, MSI or legacy IRQ interrupts. In the last one, the interrupt…
- CVE-2023-47216MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52024-01-02
in OpenHarmony v3.2.2 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause DOS through occupy all resources
- CVE-2023-22996MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52023-02-28
In the Linux kernel before 5.17.2, drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c does not release an of_find_device_by_node reference after use, e.g., with put_device.
- CVE-2022-36152MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52022-08-16
tifig v0.2.2 was discovered to contain a memory leak via operator new[](unsigned long) at /asan/asan_new_delete.cpp.
- CVE-2022-35110MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52022-08-16
SWFTools commit 772e55a2 was discovered to contain a memory leak via /lib/mem.c.
- CVE-2021-33437MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52022-07-26
An issue was discovered in mjs (mJS: Restricted JavaScript engine), ES6 (JavaScript version 6). There are memory leaks in frozen_cb() in mjs.c.
- CVE-2022-28187MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52022-05-17
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys), where the memory management software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial of se…
- CVE-2022-26878MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52022-03-11
drivers/bluetooth/virtio_bt.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.3 has a memory leak (socket buffers have memory allocated but not freed).
- CVE-2020-9146MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52021-04-01
A memory buffer error vulnerability exists in a component interface of Huawei Smartphone. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause memory leakage and doS attacks by carefully constructing attack scenarios.
- CVE-2020-15393MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-06-29
In the Linux kernel 4.4 through 5.7.6, usbtest_disconnect in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c has a memory leak, aka CID-28ebeb8db770.
- CVE-2019-20810MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-06-03
go7007_snd_init in drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6 does not call snd_card_free for a failure path, which causes a memory leak, aka CID-9453264ef586.
- CVE-2020-7455MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-05-13
In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r360973, 12.1-RELEASE before p5, 11.4-STABLE before r360973, 11.4-BETA1 before p1 and 11.3-RELEASE before p9, the FTP packet handler in libalias incorrectly calculates some packet length allowing disclosure of…
- CVE-2020-12768MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-05-09
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6. svm_cpu_uninit in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c has a memory leak, aka CID-d80b64ff297e. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because it's a one-time leak at the boot, the size is negligible, …
- CVE-2020-12656MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-05-05
gss_mech_free in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c in the rpcsec_gss_krb5 implementation in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10 lacks certain domain_release calls, leading to a memory leak. Note: This was disputed with the assertion that t…
- CVE-2011-2498MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52020-02-20
The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering creation of PTE pages.
- CVE-2019-20171MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-12-31
An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0.5.2 and 0.9.0-development-20191109. There are memory leaks in metx_New in isomedia/box_code_base.c and abst_Read in isomedia/box_code_adobe.c.
- CVE-2019-20159MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-12-31
An issue was discovered in GPAC version 0.8.0 and 0.9.0-development-20191109. There is a memory leak in dinf_New() in isomedia/box_code_base.c.
- CVE-2019-20095MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-12-30
mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of …
- CVE-2019-10520MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-12-12
An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, S…
- CVE-2019-0148MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-11-14
Resource leak in i40e driver for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers versions before 7.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.
- CVE-2019-0146MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-11-14
Resource leak in i40e driver for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers versions before 2.8.43 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.
- CVE-2011-1490MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-11-14
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could caus…
- CVE-2011-1489MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-11-14
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages were logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cau…
- CVE-2011-1488MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-11-14
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing t…
- CVE-2019-5671MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-02-27
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which the software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial…
- CVE-2018-20126MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-12-20
hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c in QEMU allows create_cq and create_qp memory leaks because errors are mishandled.
- CVE-2018-20123MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-12-17
pvrdma_realize in hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c in QEMU has a Memory leak after an initialisation error.
- CVE-2018-20002MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-12-10
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumptio…
- CVE-2018-19213MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-11-12
Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14rc16 has memory leaks that may lead to DoS, related to nasm_malloc in nasmlib/malloc.c.
- CVE-2018-19139MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-11-09
An issue has been found in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a memory leak in jas_malloc.c when called from jpc_unk_getparms in jpc_cs.c.
- CVE-2018-6554MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-09-04
Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an AF_IR…
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