CVE-2024-39485 — Improper Initialization in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 5
Latest updateSep 23
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: v4l: async: Properly re-initialise notifier entry in unregister
The notifier_entry of a notifier is not re-initialised after unregistering
the notifier. This leads to dangling pointers being left there so use
list_del_init() to return the notifier_entry an empty list.
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