Use of Uninitialized Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-trace  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRTTRACE-8418070
  • 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-rt-trace package and not the kernel-rt-trace 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.