PT-2024-36990 · Linux+6 · Linux Kernel+6
Published
2024-12-28
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Updated
2025-05-28
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CVE-2024-56681
CVSS v3.1
5.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue is related to the
ahash hmac init function, which may return an incorrect result when the ahash init function fails. For instance, ahash init returns -ENOMEM when there is an error allocating memory. This could potentially lead to security issues.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Astra Linux
Debian
Linuxmint
Linux Kernel
Red Os
Suse
Ubuntu