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CVE-2024-40939

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2024-07-12 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-416

References