Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting linux-virt-doc package, versions <6.12.14-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRTDOC-13329442
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-57997  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt-doc to version 6.12.14-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:

wifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size

KASAN reported a memory allocation issue in wcn->chan_survey due to incorrect size calculation. This commit uses kcalloc to allocate memory for wcn->chan_survey, ensuring proper initialization and preventing the use of uninitialized values when there are no frames on the channel.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1