CVE-2024-40939

kernel: net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 12, 2024

Updated · October 29, 2026

Description

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

net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail

In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-99 · Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')