CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-40939

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-07-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-416

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.6) • linux linux kernel 6.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References