Use of Uninitialized Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-bootwrapper (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-9056116
- published3 Mar 2025
- disclosed19 Nov 2024
Introduced: 19 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-50302 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:6.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper package and not the kernel-bootwrapper package as distributed by Centos.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer
Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50302
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05ade5d4337867929e7ef664e7ac8e0c734f1aaf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/177f25d1292c7e16e1199b39c85480f7f8815552
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1884ab3d22536a5c14b17c78c2ce76d1734e8b0b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f9e88f2672c4635960570ee9741778d4135ecf5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/492015e6249fbcd42138b49de3c588d826dd9648
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d9f5c75c0c7f31766ec27d90f7a6ac673193191
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7dc68d82ab3fcfc3f65322465da3d7031d4ab46
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7ea60184e1e88a3c9e437b3265cbb6439aa7e26
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog