CVE-2024-56657

CVE-2024-56657

Medium · published December 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: control: Avoid WARN() for symlink errors

Using WARN() for showing the error of symlink creations don't give

more information than telling that something goes wrong, since the

usual code path is a lregister callback from each control element

creation. More badly, the use of WARN() rather confuses fuzzer as if

it were serious issues.

This patch downgrades the warning messages to use the normal dev_err()

instead of WARN(). For making it clearer, add the function name to

the prefix, too.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00221 · 12.0th percentile
Published
2024-12-27T20:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.13, < 6.6.676.6.67
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.66.12.6
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 15:06Z
    ALSA: control: Avoid WARN() for symlink errors
    cvelistv5