CVE-2024-26655

A vulnerability was found in the posix_clock_open() function of Linux Kernel, where failure of the clk ops.open() function initialize a clock results in a memory leak, when the allocated resources, such as pccontext were not properly released upon encountering errors during clock initialization, this could lead to gradual depletion of system memory resources over time.

Mitigation

Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.