CVE-2024-56657

ALSA: control: Avoid WARN() for symlink errors

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 27, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: control: Avoid WARN() for symlink errors

Using WARN() for showing the error of symlink creations don't give more information than telling that something goes wrong, since the usual code path is a lregister callback from each control element creation. More badly, the use of WARN() rather confuses fuzzer as if it were serious issues.

This patch downgrades the warning messages to use the normal dev_err() instead of WARN(). For making it clearer, add the function name to the prefix, too.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d to before 4e5a92a7223c83c1f5f2db6cd010ac9347948972Affected
  • a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d to before 365ee29e559269cbb2108c4cc05dd8e262b4e84eAffected
  • a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d to before d5a1ca7b59804d6779644001a878ed925a4688caAffected
  • a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d to before 36c0764474b637bbee498806485bed524cad486bAffected
  • a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d to before b2e538a9827dd04ab5273bf4be8eb2edb84357b0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.13Affected
  • before 5.13Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.175 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.67 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.6 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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