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CVE-2024-56573 (GCVE-0-2024-56573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 14:23 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:45
VLAI
Title
efi/libstub: Free correct pointer on failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi/libstub: Free correct pointer on failure cmdline_ptr is an out parameter, which is not allocated by the function itself, and likely points into the caller's stack. cmdline refers to the pool allocation that should be freed when cleaning up after a failure, so pass this instead to free_pool().
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 42c8ea3dca094ab82776ca706fb7a9cbe8ac3dc9 , < d173aee5709bd0994d216d60589ec67f8b11376a (git)
Affected: 42c8ea3dca094ab82776ca706fb7a9cbe8ac3dc9 , < eaafbcf0a5782ae412ca7de12ef83fc48ccea4cf (git)
Affected: 42c8ea3dca094ab82776ca706fb7a9cbe8ac3dc9 , < 06d39d79cbd5a91a33707951ebf2512d0e759847 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.64 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.4 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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