Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting linux-virt package, versions <6.12.11-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRT-13317545
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed19 Jan 2025

Introduced: 19 Jan 2025

CVE-2024-57910  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt to version 6.12.11-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt package and not the linux-virt package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: light: vcnl4035: fix information leak in triggered buffer

The 'buffer' local array is used to push data to userspace from a triggered buffer, but it does not set an initial value for the single data element, which is an u16 aligned to 8 bytes. That leaves at least 4 bytes uninitialized even after writing an integer value with regmap_read().

Initialize the array to zero before using it to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

CVSS Base Scores

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