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Tracker / CVE-2024-40939

CVE-2024-40939

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.95
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.35
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.9.6

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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