Security Advisory

CVE-2024-56676

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-12-28 09:46:05
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:57:06
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: testing: Initialize some variables annoteded with _free() Variables annotated with __free() need to be initialized if the function can return before they get updated for the first time or the attempt to free the memory pointed to by them upon function return may crash the kernel. Fix this issue in some places in the thermal testing code.