CVE-2024-39478 (GCVE-0-2024-39478)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-05 06:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:21
VLAI
Title
crypto: starfive - Do not free stack buffer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: starfive - Do not free stack buffer RSA text data uses variable length buffer allocated in software stack. Calling kfree on it causes undefined behaviour in subsequent operations.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 445a4aaf5842073e4130b1d6dbe3785284d9615f , < 5944de192663f272033501dcd322b008fca72006 (git)
Affected: 445a4aaf5842073e4130b1d6dbe3785284d9615f , < d7f01649f4eaf1878472d3d3f480ae1e50d98f6c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.5 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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