CVE-2024-57906

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.20 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: adc: ti-ads8688: 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 4.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-908
Status published
Products (2)
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 4.19.198 - 4.20
Published Jan 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026