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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2024-36898 json

gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo

published 2024-05-30 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-36250

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo

If a line is requested with debounce, and that results in debouncing in software, and the line is subsequently reconfigured to enable edge detection then the allocation of the kfifo to contain edge events is overlooked. This results in events being written to and read from an uninitialised kfifo. Read events are returned to userspace.

Initialise the kfifo in the case where the software debounce is already active.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.203, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10, 6.9
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.94-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.8.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36898

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-186.196
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-40.40
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1112.119
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1013.14
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1112.122
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1012.13
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1108.114
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1008.11

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36898

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-25.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-25.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_5 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1
  • kernel-syms SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1
  • kernel-source SLE Micro 5.5, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS, SLES for SAP 15 SP5 +2 more 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1
  • kernel-default SLE Micro 5.5, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS, SLES for SAP 15 SP5 +3 more 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150500.55.94.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1SUSE-SU-2025:20249-1SUSE-SU-2025:0577-1SUSE-SU-2025:0577-2SUSE-SU-2025:0556-1SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-36898 updated cvss 4.1

kernel: gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
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References

Sources

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