Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-57908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in Linux Kernel

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
linux
CWE-908

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: imu: kmx61: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'buffer' local array is used to push data to user space from a triggered buffer, but it does not set values for inactive channels, as it only uses iio_for_each_active_channel() to assign new values. Initialize the array to zero before using it to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
3424

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)