PT-2024-36966

CVE-2024-56657

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Published

2024-12-10

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Updated

2026-10-21

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.8
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.74
Description A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved, related to the ALSA control, where the use of WARN() for showing symlink creation errors was downgraded to dev err() to avoid confusing fuzzers and to provide clearer error messages. The patch adds the function name to the prefix for better clarity.
Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.74, update to version 6.6.74 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
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ALSA-2025_12752
ALSA-2025_12753
ALSA-2025_16880
ALT-PU-2024-17881
ALT-PU-2025-12647
ALT-PU-2025-3496
AZL-54804
AZL-54842
CLSA-2026-1783791447
ECHO-101D-96DA-468A
MGASA-2025-0030
MGASA-2025-0032
OESA-2025-1248
OESA-2025-1249
USN-7379-1
USN-7379-2
USN-7380-1
USN-7381-1
USN-7382-1
USN-7513-1
USN-7513-2
USN-7513-3
USN-7513-4
USN-7513-5
USN-7514-1
USN-7515-1
USN-7515-2
USN-7522-1
USN-7523-1
USN-7524-1
USN-8575-1
USN-8575-2
USN-8575-3
USN-8576-1
USN-8576-2
USN-8597-1
USN-8610-1
USN-8620-1
USN-8620-2
USN-8620-3
USN-8620-4
USN-8668-1
USN-8668-2
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