CVE-2024-57979 — Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416 — Use After Free90 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.9OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+3 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateSep 3

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: Fix a use-after-free On a board running ntpd and gpsd, I'm seeing a consistent use-after-free in sys_exit() from gpsd when rebooting: pps pps1: removed ------------[ cut here ]------------ kobject: '(null)' (00000000db4bec24): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called. WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 440 at lib/kobject.c:734 kobject_put+0x120/0x150 CPU: 2 UID: 299 PID: 440 Comm: gpsd Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-00308-gb31c44…

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 Packages8 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel3.2.40 — 3.3+8
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.237-1+3
▶Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.4.0-216.236+2

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

44
OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities↗2025-09-03
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OSV
linux-raspi vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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OSV
linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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OSV
linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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OSV
linux-aws-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

45
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities↗2025-09-03
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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