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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26894" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:27:45.960Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:11.582Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26894" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26894.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26894" title: "ACPI: processor_idle: Fix memory leak in acpi_processor_power_exit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: processor_idle: Fix memory leak in acpi_processor_power_exit()\n\nAfter unregistering the CPU idle device, the memory associated with\nit is not freed, leading to a memory leak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff896282f6c000 (size 1024):\n comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294893170\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace (crc 8836a742):\n [\u003cffffffff993495ed\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x29d/0x340\n [\u003cffffffff9972f3b3\u003e] acpi_processor_power_init+0xf3/0x1c0\n [\u003cffffffff9972d263\u003e] __acpi_processor_start+0xd3/0xf0\n [\u003cffffffff9972d2bc\u003e] acpi_processor_start+0x2c/0x50\n [\u003cffffffff99805872\u003e] really_probe+0xe2/0x480\n [\u003cffffffff99805c98\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160\n [\u003cffffffff99805daf\u003e] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90\n [\u003cffffffff9980601e\u003e] __driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0\n [\u003cffffffff99803170\u003e] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0\n [\u003cffffffff99804822\u003e] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210\n [\u003cffffffff99807245\u003e] driver_register+0x55/0x100\n [\u003cffffffff9aee4acb\u003e] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x3b/0xc0\n [\u003cffffffff990012d1\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x300\n [\u003cffffffff9ae7c4b0\u003e] kernel_init_freeable+0x320/0x470\n [\u003cffffffff99b231f6\u003e] kernel_init+0x16/0x1b0\n [\u003cffffffff99042e6d\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n\nFix this by freeing the CPU idle device after unregistering it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d351bcadab6caa6d8ce7159ff4b77e2da35c09fa"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea96bf3f80625cddba1391a87613356b1b45716d"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2a30c81bf3cb9033fa9f5305baf7c377075e2e5"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cbaf4c793b0808532f4e7b40bc4be7cec2c78f2"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fad9bcd4d754cc689c19dc04d2c44b82c1a5d6c8"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d48e5be107429ff5d824e7f2a00d1b610d36fbc"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d14a4d0afb49a5b8535d414c782bb334860e73e"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd5c2d0b09d5b6d3f0a7bbabe6761a4997e9dee9"},{"version":"3d339dcbb56d8d70c1b959aff87d74adc3a84eea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e18afcb7b2a12b635ac10081f943fcf84ddacc51"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"4.19.311","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.273","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.214","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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