CVE-2024-56573

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Use After Free

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi/libstub: Free correct pointer on failure cmdline_ptr is an out parameter, which is not allocated by the function itself, and likely points into the caller's stack. cmdline refers to the pool allocation that should be freed when cleaning up after a failure, so pass this instead to free_pool().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-763
Status published
Products (3)
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.64linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.4linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.2 - 6.6.64
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026