vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-56681: kernel: crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 28, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function

The ahash_init functions may return fails. The ahash_hmac_init should
not return ok when ahash_init returns error. For an example, ahash_init
will return -ENOMEM when allocation memory is error.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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