CVE-2024-43830 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 17
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
leds: trigger: Unregister sysfs attributes before calling deactivate()
Triggers which have trigger specific sysfs attributes typically store
related data in trigger-data allocated by the activate() callback and
freed by the deactivate() callback.
Calling device_remove_groups() after calling deactivate() leaves a window
where the sysfs attributes show/store functions could be called after
deactivation and then operate on the j…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa7e7a3156300a7e1982b03cc9cb8fb0c86434c49 — c3b7a650c8717aa89df318364609c86cbc040156+8