CVE-2024-58078

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58078
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-58078.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-58078
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-06T17:15:21Z
Modified
2025-03-10T05:00:04Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

misc: miscminoralloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors

miscminoralloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of MISCDYNAMICMINOR but miscminorfree was always freeing ids using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 idafree+0x3e0/0x41f idafree called for id=127 which is not allocated. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ... [<60941eb4>] idafree+0x3e0/0x41f [<605ac993>] miscminorfree+0x3e/0xbc [<605acb82>] miscderegister+0x171/0x1b3

miscminoralloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.12.15-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}