CVE-2024-57909

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 6.12.10 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: bh1745: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'scan' local struct 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 struct to zero before using it to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.8%
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 (3)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.10linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 - 6.12.10
Published Jan 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026