Some weeks in security (December 16 – January 5)

During the holiday period on Malwarebytes Labs we covered: A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus Lock and Code S05E26 Task scams surge by 400%, but what are they? 5 million payment card details stolen in painful reminder to monitor Christmas spending AI-generated malvertising "whi...

PT-2026-29081

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenSC versions prior to 0.27.0 Description OpenSC is an open source smart card tools and middleware. Prior to version 0.27.0, providing a crafted input to the fuzz pkcs15 reader harness results in an out-of-bounds heap read within the...

PT-2026-29083

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenSC versions prior to 0.27.0 Description OpenSC is an open source smart card tools and middleware. An attacker with physical access to a computer while a user or administrator is utilizing a token can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow i...

Gift Card Fraud

It's becoming an organized crime tactic: Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card numbers and PINs or replace them with a new barcode. The crooks then repair the packaging, return to a store and place the...

CVE-2024-56685

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: Check numcodecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe Following commit 13f58267cda3 "ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component via COMPDUMMY", COMPDUMMY became an array with zero length, and only gets populated...

SUSE CVE-2024-56685

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: Check numcodecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe Following commit 13f58267cda3 "ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component via COMPDUMMY", COMPDUMMY became an array with zero length, and only gets populated...

Linux kernel 安全漏洞

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from an improper resource release in the ALSA:6fire module when releasing cards...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56685

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: Check numcodecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe Following commit 13f58267cda3 "ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component via COMPDUMMY", COMPDUMMY became an array with zero length, and only gets populated...

CVE-2024-56685 ASoC: mediatek: Check num_codecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: Check numcodecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe Following commit 13f58267cda3 "ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component via COMPDUMMY", COMPDUMMY became an array with zero length, and only gets populated...

CVE-2024-56685

Technical details about CVE-2024-56685 are not provided in the connected documents. Public information and exact affected components/versions, exploitation status, and fixes are not available here; monitor for updates and official advisories.

CVE-2024-56685 ASoC: mediatek: Check num_codecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: Check numcodecs is not zero to avoid panic during probe Following commit 13f58267cda3 "ASoC: soc.h: don't create dummy Component via COMPDUMMY", COMPDUMMY became an array with zero length, and only gets populated...

SUSE CVE-2024-53239

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: 6fire: Release resources at card release The current 6fire code tries to release the resources right after the call of usb6firechipabort. But at this moment, the card object might be still in use as we're calling...

SUSE CVE-2024-56531

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: caiaq: Use sndcardfreewhenclosed at disconnection The USB disconnect callback is supposed to be short and not too-long waiting. OTOH, the current code uses sndcardfree at disconnection, but this waits for the close of all...

SUSE CVE-2024-56532

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: us122l: Use sndcardfreewhenclosed at disconnection The USB disconnect callback is supposed to be short and not too-long waiting. OTOH, the current code uses sndcardfree at disconnection, but this waits for the close of all...

SUSE CVE-2024-56533

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usx2y: Use sndcardfreewhenclosed at disconnection The USB disconnect callback is supposed to be short and not too-long waiting. OTOH, the current code uses sndcardfree at disconnection, but this waits for the close of all...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53239

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: 6fire: Release resources at card release The current 6fire code tries to release the resources right after the call of usb6firechipabort. But at this moment, the card object might be still in use as we're calling...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56531

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: caiaq: Use sndcardfreewhenclosed at disconnection The USB disconnect callback is supposed to be short and not too-long waiting. OTOH, the current code uses sndcardfree at disconnection, but this waits for the close of all...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56532

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: us122l: Use sndcardfreewhenclosed at disconnection The USB disconnect callback is supposed to be short and not too-long waiting. OTOH, the current code uses sndcardfree at disconnection, but this waits for the close of all...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56533

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usx2y: Use sndcardfreewhenclosed at disconnection The USB disconnect callback is supposed to be short and not too-long waiting. OTOH, the current code uses sndcardfree at disconnection, but this waits for the close of all...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53239

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: 6fire: Release resources at card release The current 6fire code tries to release the resources right after the call of usb6firechipabort. But at this moment, the card object might be still in use as we're calling...