CVE-2024-36020 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.0OSV6.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 30
Latest updateNov 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i40e: fix vf may be used uninitialized in this function warning
To fix the regression introduced by commit 52424f974bc5, which causes
servers hang in very hard to reproduce conditions with resets races.
Using two sources for the information is the root cause.
In this function before the fix bumping v didn't mean bumping vf
pointer. But the code used this variables interchangeably, so stale vf
could point to different/not inten…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux76ed715836c6994bac29d9638e9314e6e3b08651 — cc9cd02dd9e8b7764ea9effb24f4f1dd73d1b23d+9
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
21OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle vulnerabilities↗2024-11-19
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