Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36890

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocati...

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CVE-2024-36890

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

CVE-2024-36890 mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

CVE-2024-36890 mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

CVE-2024-36890

CVE-2024-36890: Linux kernel mm/slab fix to have __free(kfree) treat error pointers as valid data. Previously, automatic cleanup could crash if an allocation freed as an error pointer was not checked; wm831x_gpio_dbg_show() is cited as an example. The resolution updates the auto cleanup path to v...