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GHSA-3W6X-JCM9-P8W3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-12 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-40939 (GCVE-0-2024-40939)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:58

Summary

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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe394d59cdae81389…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040d9384870386eb5…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a438704d19bdbe2…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c9a26435413b817…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

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Linux

Affected: 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf , < fe394d59cdae81389dbf995e87c83c1acd120597 (git)
Affected: 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf , < 040d9384870386eb5dc55472ac573ac7756b2050 (git)
Affected: 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf , < 37a438704d19bdbe246d51d3749b6b3a8fe65afd (git)
Affected: 4dcd183fbd67b105decc8be262311937730ccdbf , < b0c9a26435413b81799047a7be53255640432547 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.95 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.35 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.6 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2024-40939 (GCVE-0-2024-40939)

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