cve/2024/CVE-2024-56708.md
2025-09-29 21:09:30 +02:00

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CVE-2024-56708

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:EDAC/igen6: Avoid segmentation fault on module unloadThe segmentation fault happens because:During modprobe:1. In igen6_probe(), igen6_pvt will be allocated with kzalloc()2. In igen6_register_mci(), mci->pvt_info will point to &igen6_pvt->imc[mc]During rmmod:1. In mci_release() in edac_mc.c, it will kfree(mci->pvt_info)2. In igen6_remove(), it will kfree(igen6_pvt);Fix this issue by setting mci->pvt_info to NULL to avoid the doublekfree.

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