Riskcovery

CVE-2024-56676

thermal: testing: Initialize some variables annoteded with _free()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 28, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 27, 2024

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f6a034f2df426e279f1ecad53626bab80c04796a to before 526c132124a62be486bad1701f7e8e92212ccec6Affected
  • f6a034f2df426e279f1ecad53626bab80c04796a to before 0104dcdaad3a7afd141e79a5fb817a92ada910acAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.2 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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