CVE-2024-40939

critical

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-12

Updated: 2024-07-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical