# CVE-2024-27068: thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts\_thermal: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-01 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.3

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path If devm_krealloc() fails, then 'efuse' is leaking. So free it to avoid a leak.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2db869da91afd48e5b9ec76814709be49662b07d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37f3652bee468f879d35fe2da9ede3f1dcbb7be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b02197596671800dd934609384b1aca7c6ad218
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca93bf607a44c1f009283dac4af7df0d9ae5e357

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