CVE-2024-56713: 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: net: netdevsim: fix nsim_pp_hold_write() nsim_pp_hold_write() has two problems: 1) It may return with rtnl held, as found by syzbot. 2) Its return value does not propagate an error if any.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.10, before 6.12.7 (fixed in 6.12.7); version 6.13 only

Published 2024-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.