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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jan 6, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

media: dvb-frontends: dib3000mb: fix uninit-value in dib3000_write_reg

Syzbot reports [1] an uninitialized value issue found by KMSAN in
dib3000_read_reg().

Local u8 rb[2] is used in i2c_transfer() as a read buffer; in case
that call fails, the buffer may end up with some undefined values.

Since no elaborate error handling is expected in dib3000_write_reg(),
simply zero out rb buffer to mitigate the problem.

[1] Syzkaller report
dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -22 (6/0)

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in dib3000mb_attach+0x2d8/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
dib3000mb_attach+0x2d8/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
dibusb_dib3000mb_frontend_attach+0x155/0x2f0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c:31
dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init+0xed/0x9a0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dvb.c:290
dvb_usb_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:90 [inline]
dvb_usb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:186 [inline]
dvb_usb_device_init+0x25a8/0x3760 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:310
dibusb_probe+0x46/0x250 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c:110
...
Local variable rb created at:
dib3000_read_reg+0x86/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:54
dib3000mb_attach+0x123/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
...

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 6, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 6, 2025
Last updated Jan 9, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56769

GHSA ID

GHSA-q23h-j65c-73m4

Source code

No known source code

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