CVE-2024-56690 — Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 28
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: pcrypt - Call crypto layer directly when padata_do_parallel() return -EBUSY
Since commit 8f4f68e788c3 ("crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for
PADATA_RESET"), the pcrypt encryption and decryption operations return
-EAGAIN when the CPU goes online or offline. In alg_test(), a WARN is
generated when pcrypt_aead_decrypt() or pcrypt_aead_encrypt() returns
-EAGAIN, the unnecessary panic will occur when panic_on_warn set 1.
Fix t…
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 Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux039fec48e062504f14845124a1a25eb199b2ddc0 — dd8bf8eb5beba1e7c3b11a9a5a58ccbf345a69e6+11