cve/2024/CVE-2024-53202.md

### [CVE-2024-53202](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-53202)
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### Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwisethere may be resource leak here.To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmallocfails.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/cku-heise/euvd-api-doc