CVE-2024-57910

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 5.4.290 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: vcnl4035: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'buffer' local array is used to push data to userspace from a triggered buffer, but it does not set an initial value for the single data element, which is an u16 aligned to 8 bytes. That leaves at least 4 bytes uninitialized even after writing an integer value with regmap_read(). 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 3.5%
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 5.4.132 - 5.4.290
Published Jan 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026