Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting linux-virt-doc 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-LINUXVIRTDOC-13310498
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed19 Jan 2025

Introduced: 19 Jan 2025

CVE-2024-57911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt-doc package and not the linux-virt-doc 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: dummy: iio_simply_dummy_buffer: fix information leak in triggered buffer

The 'data' array is allocated via kmalloc() and it is used to push data to user space from a triggered buffer, but it does not set values for inactive channels, as it only uses iio_for_each_active_channel() to assign new values.

Use kzalloc for the memory allocation to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

CVSS Base Scores

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