Search: CVE-2024-57980

Red Hat has released a security advisory for the kernel-rt packages, which provide the Real Time Linux Kernel for systems requiring high determinism. The update addresses multiple vulnerabilities including a double free error in the uvcvideo driver (CVE-2024-57980), and several other issues affecting IPv6 multicast, WiFi firmware string printing, ext4 journaling, huge memory management, network scheduling, and TIPC encryption. The advisory rates the update as important and requires a system reboot after applying the patch.