CVE-2024-56676

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: testing: Initialize some variables annoteded with _free() Variables annotated with __free() need to be initialized if the function can return before they get updated for the first time or the attempt to free the memory pointed to by them upon function return may crash the kernel. Fix this issue in some places in the thermal testing code.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/526c132124a62be486bad1701f7e8e92212ccec6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0104dcdaad3a7afd141e79a5fb817a92ada910ac

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-12-28

Updated: 2024-12-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium