CVE-2024-56769 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.1OSV6.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 6
Latest updateMay 29
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvb-frontends: dib3000mb: fix uninit-value in dib3000_write_reg
Syzbot reports [1] an uninitialized value issue found by KMSAN in
dib3000_read_reg().
Local u8 rb[2] is used in i2c_transfer() as a read buffer; in case
that call fails, the buffer may end up with some undefined values.
Since no elaborate error handling is expected in dib3000_write_reg(),
simply zero out rb buffer to mitigate the problem.
[1] Syzkaller r…
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/linux74340b0a8bc60b400c7e5fe4950303aa6f914d16 — 035772fcd631eee2756b31cb6df249c0a8d453d7+7