CVE-2024-56681: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function The ahash_init functions may return fails. The ahash_hmac_init should not return ok when ahash_init returns error. For an example, ahash_init will return -ENOMEM when allocation memory is error.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.11, before 4.19.325 (fixed in 4.19.325); from 4.20, before 5.4.287 (fixed in 5.4.287); from 5.5, before 5.10.231 (fixed in 5.10.231); from 5.11, before 5.15.174 (fixed in 5.15.174); from 5.16, before 6.1.120 (fixed in 6.1.120); from 6.2, before 6.6.64 (fixed in 6.6.64); …

Published 2024-12-28. Last modified 2026-08-04.