# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-38554"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-19T13:35:25.406Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:48:34.479Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z"
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-2024-38554"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38554.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38554"
title: "ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device\n\nThere is a reference count leak issue of the object \"net_device\" in\nax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the\nax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one\nor zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will\ncause memory leak.\n\nIn order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of\nnet_device after dev-\u003eax25_ptr is set to null."
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