# CVE-2024-56745: PCI: Fix reset\_method\_store() memory leak

- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-29 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.15

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Fix reset_method_store() memory leak In reset_method_store(), a string is allocated via kstrndup() and assigned to the local "options". options is then used in with strsep() to find spaces: while ((name = strsep(&options, " ")) != NULL) { If there are no remaining spaces, then options is set to NULL by strsep(), so the subsequent kfree(options) doesn't free the memory allocated via kstrndup(). Fix by using a separate tmp_options to iterate with strsep() so options is preserved.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/403efb4457c0c8f8f51e904cc57d39193780c6bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/931d07ccffcc3614f20aaf602b31e89754e21c59
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e098baf6bc3f3a6aefc383509aba07e202f7ee0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/543d0eb40e45c6a51f1bff02f417b602e54472d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6fae61f3b993160aef5fe2b7141a83872c144f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2985b1844f3f3447f2d938eff1ef6762592065a5

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