cve-2024-42098
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-29 17:39
Modified
2024-12-19 09:12
Severity ?
Summary
crypto: ecdh - explicitly zeroize private_key
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39173b04abda87872b43c331468a4a14f8f05ce8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73e5984e540a76a2ee1868b91590c922da8c24c9
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80575b252ab0358b7e93895b2a510beb3cb3f975
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d96187eb8e59b572a8e6a68b6a9837a867ea29df
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7ef325911eba1b7191b83cb580463242f2090d
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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