Security Resilience

CVE-2024-56679

Linux Kernel 5.12 – 5.15.174

Published
28 December 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 12th percentile
Risk Priority 42 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-56679 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 12th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: handle otx2_mbox_get_rsp errors in otx2_common.c Add error pointer check after calling otx2_mbox_get_rsp().

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.12 — 5.15.174 · 5.16 — 6.1.120 · 6.2 — 6.6.64

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References