CVE-2024-43851 — Assignment to Variable without Use in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: xilinx: rename cpu_number1 to dummy_cpu_number
The per cpu variable cpu_number1 is passed to xlnx_event_handler as
argument "dev_id", but it is not used in this function. So drop the
initialization of this variable and rename it to dummy_cpu_number.
This patch is to fix the following call trace when the kernel option
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux…
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/linux01946c3c83b2279fec685abc83f0d7b0468851db — a5e507fadab76393cbc12344ebd65a417a09aa46+5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-fv6p-j83c-r5q7: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: xilinx: rename cpu_number1 to dummy_cpu_number
The per cpu variable cpu_num↗2024-08-17
OSV▶
CVE-2024-43851: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: xilinx: rename cpu_number1 to dummy_cpu_number The per cpu variable cpu_numbe↗2024-08-17