CVE-2024-56576 — Race Condition in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 27
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: i2c: tc358743: Fix crash in the probe error path when using polling
If an error occurs in the probe() function, we should remove the polling
timer that was alarmed earlier, otherwise the timer is called with
arguments that are already freed, which results in a crash.
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WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at kernel/time/timer.c:1830 __run_timers+0x244/0x268
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 0 C…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4e66a52a2e4c832dfa35a39204d0f7ce717d4a4a — 13193a97ddd5a6a5b11408ddbc1ae85588b1860c+7