🛡️ CVE-2024-56676
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-909 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: testing: Initialize some variables annoteded with _free() Variables annotated with __free() need to be initialized if the function can return before they get updated for the first time or the attempt to free the memory pointed to by them upon function return may crash the kernel. Fix this issue in some places in the thermal testing code.

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-909
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-28
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-09-26

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel 6.12 6.12.2

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