CVE-2024-56739 - Linux Kernel Bluetooth: Uninitialized Date/Time Read

CVE-2024-56739 - Linux Kernel Bluetooth: Uninitialized Date/Time Read

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CVE ID : CVE-2024-56739
Published : Dec. 29, 2024, 12:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rtc: check if __rtc_read_time was successful in rtc_timer_do_work() If the __rtc_read_time call fails,, the struct rtc_time tm; may contain uninitialized data, or an illegal date/time read from the RTC hardware. When calling rtc_tm_to_ktime later, the result may be a very large value (possibly KTIME_MAX). If there are periodic timers in rtc->timerqueue, they will continually expire, may causing kernel softlockup.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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