CVE-2024-56766

HIGH

Linux kernel - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: rawnand: fix double free in atmel_pmecc_create_user() The "user" pointer was converted from being allocated with kzalloc() to being allocated by devm_kzalloc(). Calling kfree(user) will lead to a double free.

References (9)

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1562871ef613fa9492aa0310933eff785166a90e

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d825a241e65f7e3072978729e79d735ec40b80e

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca9818554b0f33e87f38e4bfa2dac056692d46cc

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ea15205d7e2b811fbbdf79783f686f58abfb4b7

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2f090ea57f8d6587e09d4066f740a8617767b3d

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8e4771f99c0400a1873235704b28bb803c83d17

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd45c87782738715d5e7c167f8dabf0814a7394a

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 3.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-415

Status published

Affected Products (5)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.20

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

Timeline

Published Jan 06, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026