CVE-2024-43900 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 26
Latest updateMay 28
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: xc2028: avoid use-after-free in load_firmware_cb()
syzkaller reported use-after-free in load_firmware_cb() [1].
The reason is because the module allocated a struct tuner in tuner_probe(),
and then the module initialization failed, the struct tuner was released.
A worker which created during module initialization accesses this struct
tuner later, it caused use-after-free.
The process is as follows:
task-6504 worker_thr…
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 Packages9 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux61a96113de51e1f8f43ac98cbeadb54e60045905 — ef517bdfc01818419f7bd426969a0c86b14f3e0e+4