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CVE-2024-49851: tpm: Clean up TPM space after command failure

5.5 CVSS

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tpm: Clean up TPM space after command failure

tpm_dev_transmit prepares the TPM space before attempting command
transmission. However if the command fails no rollback of this
preparation is done. This can result in transient handles being leaked
if the device is subsequently closed with no further commands performed.

Fix this by flushing the space in the event of command transmission
failure.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-49851

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.17% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49851
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87e8134c18977b566f4ec248c8a147244da69402
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c9b228938e9266a1065a3f4fe5c99b7235dc439
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebc4e1f4492d114f9693950621b3ea42b2f82bec
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c84ceb546f30432fccea4891163f7050f5bee5dd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82478cb8a23bd4f97935bbe60d64528c6d9918b4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adf4ce162561222338cf2c9a2caa294527f7f721
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f9f72d843c92fb6f4ff7460d774413cde7f254c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3aaebcbb7c6b403416f442d1de70d437ce313a7

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