🛡️ CVE-2024-56573
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-763 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi/libstub: Free correct pointer on failure cmdline_ptr is an out parameter, which is not allocated by the function itself, and likely points into the caller's stack. cmdline refers to the pool allocation that should be freed when cleaning up after a failure, so pass this instead to free_pool().

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-763
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-27
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-10-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel 6.7 6.12.4

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