CVE-2024-56716

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56716
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-56716.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-56716
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-12-29T08:48:49.165Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:39:55.693226Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsim_dev_health_break_write()
Details

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

netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsimdevhealthbreakwrite()

If either a zero count or a large one is provided, kernel can crash.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/56xxx/CVE-2024-56716.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f
Fixed
81bdfcd6e6a998e219c9dd49ec7291c2e0594bbc
Fixed
b3a6daaf7cfb2de37b89fd7a5a2ad4ea9aa3e181
Fixed
d10321be26ff9e9e912697e9e8448099654ff561
Fixed
470c5ecbac2f19b1cdee2a6ce8d5650c3295c94b
Fixed
8e9ef6bdf71bf25f4735e0230ce1919de8985835
Fixed
ee76746387f6233bdfa93d7406990f923641568f

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-56716.json"