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CVE record · CVE-2024-56716

netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsim_dev_health_break_write()

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0021 · 11th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 29 Dec 2024, 08:48 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f to before 81bdfcd6e6a998e219c9dd49ec7291c2e0594bbc git
  • affected 82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f to before b3a6daaf7cfb2de37b89fd7a5a2ad4ea9aa3e181 git
  • affected 82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f to before d10321be26ff9e9e912697e9e8448099654ff561 git
  • affected 82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f to before 470c5ecbac2f19b1cdee2a6ce8d5650c3295c94b git
  • affected 82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f to before 8e9ef6bdf71bf25f4735e0230ce1919de8985835 git
  • affected 82c93a87bf8bc0cdb5ec2ab99da7d87715ff889f to before ee76746387f6233bdfa93d7406990f923641568f git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.5
  • unaffected before 5.5 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.233 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.176 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.122 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.68 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.7 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.13 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2024-56716
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1284
Tags
Published
29 Dec 2024
Updated
11 May 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0021, the 11th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 29 Dec 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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