CVE-2024-46865 (GCVE-0-2024-46865)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-27 12:42
Modified
2026-08-05 11:39
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fou: fix initialization of grc The grc must be initialize first. There can be a condition where if fou is NULL, goto out will be executed and grc would be used uninitialized.
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Impacted products
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Linux Linux Version: 231c235d2f7a66f018f172e26ffd47c363f244ef
Version: 4494bccb52ffda22ce5a1163a776d970e6229e08
Version: d7567f098f54cb53ee3cee1c82e3d0ed9698b6b3
Version: 1df42be305fe478ded1ee0c1d775f4ece713483b
Version: c46cd6aaca81040deaea3500ba75126963294bd9
Version: 7e4196935069947d8b70b09c1660b67b067e75cb
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