Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-56741

low Nessus Plugin ID 230966

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup() The string allocated by kmemdup() in aa_unpack_strdup() is not freed and cause following memory leaks, free them to fix it. unreferenced object 0xffffff80c6af8a50 (size 8): comm kunit_try_catch, pid 225, jiffies 4294894407 hex dump (first 8 bytes): 74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 00 testing.
backtrace (crc 5eab668b): [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [<000000006e6c7776>]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x300/0x3e0 [<000000006870467c>] kmemdup_noprof+0x34/0x60 [<000000001176bb03>] aa_unpack_strdup+0xd0/0x18c [<000000008ecde918>] policy_unpack_test_unpack_strdup_with_null_name+0xf8/0x3ec [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 unreferenced object 0xffffff80c2a29090 (size 8): comm kunit_try_catch, pid 227, jiffies 4294894409 hex dump (first 8 bytes):
74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 00 testing. backtrace (crc 5eab668b): [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [<000000006e6c7776>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x300/0x3e0 [<000000006870467c>] kmemdup_noprof+0x34/0x60 [<000000001176bb03>] aa_unpack_strdup+0xd0/0x18c [<0000000046a45c1a>] policy_unpack_test_unpack_strdup_with_name+0xd0/0x3c4 [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 (CVE-2024-56741)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 230966

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_56741.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56741

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56741

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