CVE-2024-38615

medium

Published 2024-09-24 · Modified 2024-11-03

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: exit() callback is optional The exit() callback is optional and shouldn't be called without checking a valid pointer first. Also, we must clear freq_table pointer even if the exit() callback isn't present.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
rocky	8	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.94-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.221-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.8.12-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.8.12-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.8.12-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`5.4.278`
almalinux	8	fixed	`kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm`
almalinux	9	fixed	`kernel-64k-devel-matched-5.14.0-427.37.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.