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  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for     all dynamic/misc dynamic minors misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of     MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids using ida_free causing a mismatch and     following warn: > > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > ida_free called for     id=127 which is not allocated. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ... > > [<60941eb4>]     ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > [<605ac993>] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc > > [<605acb82>]     misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3 misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors falling in     the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors (CVE-2024-58078)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-58078

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232245

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Version 1.3 Aug 8, 2025, 11:45 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202508082345
Version 1.1 Mar 7, 2025, 1:27 PM New Plugin Feed: 202503071327