CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-43830

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel related to improper removal of sysfs attributes before calling the deactivate function. This may lead to a situation where functions operating on trigger-data can be called after it has been freed.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to unexpected system behavior, potentially leading to crashes or data integrity issues. Exploitation of this vulnerability could impact system stability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version where this vulnerability has been fixed. Additionally, monitor systems for unauthorized operations on sysfs attributes.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: leds: trigger: Unregister sysfs attributes before calling deactivate() Triggers which have trigger specific sysfs attributes typically store related data in trigger-data allocated by the activate() callback and freed by the deactivate() callback. Calling device_remove_groups() after calling deactivate() leaves a window where the sysfs attributes show/store functions could be called after deactivation and then operate on the just freed trigger-data. Move the device_remove_groups() call to before deactivate() to close this race window. This also makes the deactivation path properly do things in reverse order of the activation path which calls the activate() callback before calling device_add_groups().

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