Resource Injection Affecting kernel-core package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCORE-7473174
- published 17 Jul 2024
- disclosed 12 Jul 2024
Introduced: 12 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-40939 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-core.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail
In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40939
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597