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Tracker / CVE-2024-56605

CVE-2024-56605

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: do not leave dangling sk pointer on error in l2cap_sock_create() bt_sock_alloc() allocates the sk object and attaches it to the provided sock object. On error l2cap_sock_alloc() frees the sk object, but the dangling pointer is still attached to the sock object, which may create use-after-free in other code.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 5.4.287
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.174
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.120
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.231
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.66
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.5

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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