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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2024-57979 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: Fix a use-after-free On a board running ntpd and gpsd, I'm seeing a consistent use-after-free in sys_exit() from gpsd when rebooting: pps pps1: removed ------------[ cut here ]------------ kob

[NVD] CVE-2024-57979 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pps: Fix a use-after-free On a board running ntpd and gpsd, I'm seeing a consistent use-after-free in sys_exit() from gpsd when rebooting: pps pps1: removed ------------[ cut here ]------------ kob

lownvdPublished 2025-02-27

CVE-2024-57979 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2025-02-27T02:15:11.087

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

pps: Fix a use-after-free

On a board running ntpd and gpsd, I'm seeing a consistent use-after-free in sys_exit() from gpsd when rebooting:

pps pps1: removed ------------[ cut here ]------------ kobject: '(null)' (00000000db4bec24): is not initialized,

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57979