thermal: testing: Initialize some variables annoteded with _free()
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: testing: Initialize some variables annoteded with _free() Variables annotated with __free() need to be initialized if the function can return before they get updated for the first time or the attempt to free the memory pointed to by them upon function return may crash the kernel. Fix this issue in some places in the thermal testing code.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.12.2, 6.13
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-56676
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jqcp-w97c-4jjv
References
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Sources
- CVE-2024-56676 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-56676 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jqcp-w97c-4jjv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-56676 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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