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Tracker / CVE-2024-36975

CVE-2024-36975

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KEYS: trusted: Do not use WARN when encode fails When asn1_encode_sequence() fails, WARN is not the correct solution. 1. asn1_encode_sequence() is not an internal function (located in lib/asn1_encode.c). 2. Location is known, which makes the stack trace useless. 3. Results a crash if panic_on_warn is set. It is also noteworthy that the use of WARN is undocumented, and it should be avoided unless there is a carefully considered rationale to use it. Replace WARN with pr_err, and print the return value instead, which is only useful piece of information.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 5.13 → 5.15.160
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.92
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.32
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.8.11
linux linux_kernel · 6.9 → 6.9.2

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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