CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-33619
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efi: libstub: only free priv.runtime_map when allocated
priv.runtime_map is only allocated when efi_novamap is not set.
Otherwise, it is an uninitialized value. In the error path, it is freed
unconditionally. Avoid passing an uninitialized value to free_pool.
Free priv.runtime_map only when it was allocated.
This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b2543f7e1e6b91cfc8dd1696e3cdf01c3ac8974 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca67a5fe1c606d1fbe24c30a9fc0bdc43a18554 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dce01f386c9ce6990c0a83fa14b1c95330b037e Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8938d6f570f010a1dcdbfed3e5b5d3258c2a908 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b2543f7e1e6b91cfc8dd1696e3cdf01c3ac8974 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca67a5fe1c606d1fbe24c30a9fc0bdc43a18554 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dce01f386c9ce6990c0a83fa14b1c95330b037e Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8938d6f570f010a1dcdbfed3e5b5d3258c2a908 Mailing List, Patch