vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-50302: kernel: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 19, 2024
Added
Mar 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 17, 2025

Description

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

HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer

Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's
zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used
to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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