Incorrect Check of Function Return Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELHEADERS-12149679
- published22 Aug 2025
- disclosed28 Dec 2024
Introduced: 28 Dec 2024
CVE-2024-56681 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function
The ahash_init functions may return fails. The ahash_hmac_init should not return ok when ahash_init returns error. For an example, ahash_init will return -ENOMEM when allocation memory is error.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334665
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56681
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05f0a3f5477ecaa1cf46448504afe9e7c2e96fcc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19630cf57233e845b6ac57c9c969a4888925467b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28f8ffa945f7d7150463e15097ea73b19529d6f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ea3e3b761e371102bb1486778e2f8dbc9e37413
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75e1e38e5d80d6d9011b7322698ffba3dd3db30a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f1a9a960b1107bd0e0ec3736055f5ed0e717edf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5253313e0ea5f00c06176074592b7f493c8546
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bba9e38c5ad41d0a88b22a59e5b6dd3e31825118
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee36db8e8203420e6d5c42eb9428920c2fc36532
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html