CVE-2024-36898
kernel: gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 30, 2024
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable