Use of Uninitialized Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
0.19% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNEL-8418076
  • published26 Nov 2024
  • disclosed19 Nov 2024

Introduced: 19 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-50302  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

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.